Everything you own
Everyone you care about
Just give it all up
Forget your studies
They won't help you in what you really need
Abandon them
Get a small shitty job where you don't need
career prospects
Get a job that pays the bills (barely)
Give up hope for more than what you need
[What you own ends up owning you]
Give up your machines
Your computer
Your television
Yes, even your stereo equipment
[It's only after you've lost everything that
you're free to do anything]
You don't need it!
You don't even want it that much
Because it makes you miserable
Think:
When was the last time you were really happy?
When you bought a new car or video or CD?
Or were you with people, and was it a person
that made you happy?
Are you happier with people or with your
machines?
Does this bother you?
You have no answers, and you ask no questions
Kick back
Fight whatever it is you don't like about
yourself
Or them
Or the system
Or the government
Or the world
Don't just sit there and not even observe
Answer questions when people ask them
Think about your answers
Don't just shrug or avoid them or ignore
them
Challenge yourself, and challenge everything around you
You don't need a career unless you want large
personal belongings
You don't need large personal belongings
A wide-screen television isn't happiness
You say it's for "security"
Do you feel more secure with your new apartment
than with thoughts and people?
Give it up
As a side note, you
will call me a hypocrite
But I would
I really would
But I fear one thing
Much much more than
I fear the hollowness which I expect I would feel without my computer or
my DVDs or ICQ or my music collection
Even more than I fear
giving up conventions of my life like Radiohead and driving
I fear abandoning it
all
And at the end of it
all
When I'm at home with
no career
No workmates to discuss
current events
No old friends, because
they will all leave to pursue lives and careers and all which I abandon
And they will assume
I look down on them for their choice
After all this
I fear that
It
Will
All
Mean
Nothing