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Many Things I sit here and I feel as though I need some passion to shoot through my fingers onto this page. I need some terrific Idea, something so persuassive and funny it could stir the shcool faculty and the students into open revolution, complete with a guillotine, riots and rocks through windows. What exactly that subject is does not strike me at the moment, so I will write another detailed article about saving the blue whale. I want to announce that despite some of the things that I have said to you in person and in this publication, I will sincerely miss about 4 of you when I graduate. Friends are the marrow of life, they truly are. Those who live without someone close to them, are no doubt miserable people. I wish to say thank you to everyone that has lifted me up these past eight months. I'm not getting mushy and I don't want to sound like another ignorant, sobbing loser, leaving high school, but I will honestly feel a piece of me torn away when I leave. You know, life is like a gumball machine...no, never mind, that isn't going to work. Life is like a toilet [that sounds muchh better]. While we are young, there is so much crap that gets in our way. A thousand problems that won't mean a thing in a month, but are completely devouring at the time, are trying to drown us. I want to be able to look back at being a young adult and see how funny this trauma really is. Some say life isn't a joke and I think it is. Life's an evil prank to make us think that we are all free to choose who we wish to be, but in reality, we are kept inside the forces of gravity. Even if we don't want to admit it, we all have "dreams." I know the word is completely over-used, and will probably be said over a thousand times in graduation speeches, but I would like to discuss the misunderstandings often associated with dreams. First of all, most of us will never achieve our dreams, simmply because they are so unrealistic and we lack the drive to complete them. Don't believe that new age bull on television about "daring to dream." You know what society dreams for us? It dreams you have 2.5 children, pay your fair share" of taxes, cry at the sight of firearms, give SS#'s to all your |
kids, and watch a daily dose of government filtered, and monitored, news and sitcoms, with laugh tracks to go.
We are born in prisons, ladies and gentlemen,inside "latex bubbles." As I try to speak to you through that liner, I hope you can hear my words. We all knew to a certain point that the world is a vicious, life-sucking monster, that lies beneath beds and eats small children. As we hear one person after another talk about dreams, I offer you an excerpt from a Bukowski poem I like a lot called The Crunch There is a loneliness in this world so great That you can see it in the slow movement of The hands of a clock. People so tired Mutilated Either by love or no love. People just are not good to each other One on one The rich are not good to the rich The poor are not good to the poor We are afraid Our educational system tells us That we can all be Big-ass winners. It hasn't told us About the gutters Or the suicides. Or the terror of one person Aching in a one place Alone Untouched Unspoken to A final note, although most of the things happening right now in our lives are silly in a few years, we are molding our future selves. What we are beginning to believe now, will be our convictions when we are adults. What we block our ears from now, will not be a sound in a few years. Please listen, we all need to listen more. Can you hear the heartbeat of life? It throbs steadily and is ours for the taking. |
