"And since I made it here, I can make it anywhere"
December 26, 2009 § 1 Comment
I don’t know what it is about this time of year that makes people remember, reminisce, and reflect more than any other time. But as the end of the year creeps upon us, and a million best/worst lists are floating around, I find myself composing a list of my own.
15. USPS made my shit list when it decided to lose three, microwave-sized boxes weighing 25 pounds each. Wherever or whoever has them, I hope you’re enjoying my Norton Anthology collection and my VHS copy of Ferris Bueller Day’s Off.
14. Any healthy snacking (ie, almonds, bananas) becomes instantly void when you slather it with Nutella.
13. I despise internet acronyms, because whenever I come across ones I don’t know (basically everything beyond BRB and LOL), I feel utterly outdated. I’m going to start accusing people who use them as being lazy.
12. Glee makes me nostalgic for high school, but reaffirms the notion that I would never go back to do it over. I had fun in high school. I loved going to Friday night footballs games with my friends in 35 degree weather, bomb threat drills, two-hour bus rides for soccer matches, and AP Calculus. Looking back at photos now, I cringe at my homecoming dress and low-riding jeans, and sigh over the days when size 0 ran prominence in my closet. But who I was then is nowhere close to who I am now. And despite a few setbacks and stalls, I’d like to think who I am now is someone progressively moving forward.
11. Your kid is cleaning the Starbucks floor with his tongue. And you’re worried about the swine flu?
10. Age doesn’t guarantee wisdom and maturity. And just because my friends are getting married, having children, buying up real estate, and generally taking on “adult” issues, doesn’t mean I should beat myself up for not reaching that point yet (or even, having any remote thoughts about any of the mentioned). There was plenty of growing and learning this year, but there were also plenty I wasn’t ready to let go yet or take full responsibility for. And I’m grateful I still have that commodity.
9. You know who had a bad year? Pants.
8. Fake modesty doesn’t make you humble, or considerate. It makes you an asshole.
7. 14-hours a day in a car for a week while you travel cross country can make you have psychopathic thoughts, delusional conversations, and some serious soul-crippling realizations. You also learn that belting out the soundtrack to Hairspray (off-key no less) loses its novelty within the first song, and that if you really listen to the rap songs of your youth, you’d be appalled by the actual lyrics. You discover that middle America offers a whole lot of nothing, and that there are just as many billboards for porn warehouses as there are cow fields. You can also come dangerously close to killing your passengers, no matter how much you love them, especially around the 13thhour.
6. Sam Worthington. You had me at hybrid cyborg.
5. Just cause it’s there doesn’t mean you have to eat it. I’m looking at you, can of frosting.
4. And you, leftover Halloween candy.
3. It’s easy to worry about being a good friend, especially in a moment of heartbreak and need. You choose your words carefully, and question everything that does manage to leave your mouth. You can wish you were more eloquent, or more effective in alleviating the pain. But when there’s little that can be done or said, the best you can do is make sure you’re there when they need you.
2. Why is James Franco on General Hospital?
1. A small probability is better than zero probability. Life is short.
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