Literally rotting away?
Monday, May 22, 2006
Are you slacking right now? As in not at this point of time, but at this point of your life. Are you literally doing nothing during your summer break? Or perhaps not putting in effort to look for a job ever since you "graduated?" If you are, good job!
I mean what is the deal with you being expected to work during your break? Sheesh. It's almost like a sin that I'm not engaged in some meaningless part-time labour lifting boxes, serving food or keying in data. Fwahh! You know what I was doing all summah? "Sir would you like to upsize you meal?"
My mom popped in the other day when I was at my computer and she asked: "Are you going to stay there this whole holiday?" To which I replied, "No lah, later on I going out for supper." People seem to have this perception that since I didn't go get a job or anything, I'm like a lazy freak. Yar someone actually presumed that "Yea right, like he would go get a job. Please, he's so lazy lah!"
The way I see it, I totally deserve a rest. Yes. 4 months worth of rest. I wanna be RE-e-E-eally rested for the next them. I wanna be like I just woke up from a 10 year slumber by the time I start school. Shit man, I've worked hard. I deserve this. Here now I would like to contest yet another assumption, why is it that people automatically assume that I'm rotting away and that I have nothing to do and "wouldn't you be bored?"
Here's the way I see it, there are a few kinds of term breakers..
The guys who dunno what they wanna do and do nothing:Admittedly, there are quite a few of these people. They truly do just rot off at home and actually fuse to their beds and chairs. Sadly there are quite a large number of people in this category and they unfortunately, give me a bad name.
The guys who dunno what they wanna do and hence work:Ah these are the people who have the audacity to lecture MY people. So they think they're more hardworking because they're doing something "constructive" with their time, ie earning money, ie "Xcuse me, would you like to upsize your meal?" ie the same thing that they'll being doing for the rest of their lives till they die. Work a shitty meaningless job 9-5 in an office. You know you really want to get as MUCH practice of that during your youth while you still can. I mean you're only going to do it for the next half of your life. Better get a head start. Basically these guys just work because truly, without working.. they'd vapourize and demolecularize from boredom.
The guys who know what they wanna do and hence work:Does not compute. Abort, Retry, Fail. _
Anomaly detected.
Subject assigned filename TanYY.Bighead.WORM
The guys who know what they wanna do and are not working:Ah hah! This is where my people lie. The reason we're not vapourizing or demolecularizing is because while your untrained eye may perceive us as doing nothing.. we are actually doing the stuff that we want to do. Stuff like personal development. Learning soft skills. Picking up a new sport. We are unfortunately a minority species and also bear striking physical resemblance to
The guys who do not know what they wanna do and do nothing and are hence persecuted as such. It is a grave injustice that which has been visited upon my people. And there shall come a reckoning and there shall be a such a cry across the land that you will surely let my people go.
Of course there are the people who are
The guys who work because they kinda have to. Well we all feel sorry for you.
This a cry to all the people out there, try to realise that this is the last chance that you are going to get to do absolutely nothing. After studies you are going to work. And chances are it is going to suck. The next time you're going to be able to live life like you do now, is probably when you're too old for the shit you're doing now. So live life. If you've graduated and are looking for a job, it's okay to take it abit slow.
Here is some evidence of my soft skills development
Things on my mind:
Ger in Europe
Pencil Art
Boobs
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