a life/college/parents kind of question

[Ace]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

You can fuckin' rule too, just decide in your mind that you can, and when you convice yourself, f*ck everyone else. Your dreams are yours and yours alone. Follow them, and you will live the life complete. Ignore them and you will live the life of regret.

[No Use]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

i'm with Ninja. hang around people who've followed dreams, i'll be hanging around Here for a Long time!

[Cleveland Metal]

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Man, I wish you luck in whatever you decide to apply yourself to.

My parents never approved or helped me in any thing I ever did. Particularly music.

I left home at 16 to be out on my own. I worked with what little talent I had and over the years, I learned to play play guitar pretty well and played a ton of clubs with cover metal bands 3-4 nights a week for years during the 80s and 90s. I eeked a living off it for a while. Short if going to MIT, I my life was pretty much metal music.

Now at 40, although I own two ghetto estates (haha), I'm in a potentially unstable dead end job, with no benefits and basically no future. I can play guitar fairly well and duplicate whatever I hear for the most part. Spent my whole life grooming myself for that, what I got out of it well, not much. Other than personal satisfaction, that and $2 will get me a large cup of coffee.

In the end, it seems I climbed the wrong mountain...

Follow your dreams as much as you can, but have a backup plan man... Get a good education. Please...

[No Use]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

i hear you man. thats why i'm digging this business management degree. to help me with the theatre ownership prospects, but at least i have a credible degree when i'm out auditioning or playing gigs for pizza rolls! (very happily, i might add) once i get there...i can;t wait.

[Ace]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

I'll die happily on the mountain I have climbed. If I have nothing but my integrity to keep me warm, I will persevere.

[Ace]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

My goal is to retire on the revenues from the book I will write when my adventures are over. The title? "The Life You Were Too Much of a Bitch to Lead". Best-seller.

[No Use]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

bro, you should put out a book of your quotes, they rule.

[Cleveland Metal]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

Ehh, you'll die penniless clutching your unpublished manuscript.... What little wasn't used for TP. Hehe...

I sure hope that Bitch thing wasn't pointed at me... hehe...

[No Use]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

damn he posted faster than i did! yeah ace, you should. i'll buy it and just keep this thread, as inspiration.

[Ace]

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Of course the bitch thing wasn't pointed at you!! It wasn't pointed at anyone besides myself. It would be about the life I would have lead had I followed what everyone had told me to do in my life. Cleve, I'm not saying that you shouldn't have an alternate source of income to finance that most important thing in your life, your family. But tell me that I'll die penniless clutching my un-finished manuscript, and my awnser is WILL BE this: I told you I could. What you do with your life is totally your own choice, and if I die penniless an naked, how was I fuckin' born? Penniless and naked. How do we all die? Penniless and naked. Do you really believe that your bank statment carries over into the afterlife?

[Cleveland Metal]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

I sure won't have any bank statement worth worrying about to follow me to the after life. I just REALLLLLY hope my second mortage doesn't follow me...

Now that, would suck...

[Ace]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

Cleve, I'd rather be in your shoes and KNOW that I had tried than be in someone else's shoes and just wished that I had.

[No Use]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

unfortunately, i know people who believe it could and hope that money would carry over to the afterlife. i strive to be from that idea and ego. though, something tells me i won;t have to worry about it. at least, i hope not anyways!

[Ace]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

Please do keep my quotations in a book. I used to for years, but it got lost. Also quoute Cleve, because his experience is just as valid as mine.

[No Use]

Re: a life/college/parents kind of question

yeah, brothers. just keep posting them, and i'll have them