Every week I have
trouble writing my blog posts. It has been a full five days of long, hard work:
school, golf, work, clubs, studying, homework, eating etc. How can I be
expected to remember what I’ve learned during the day?? After six classes each
day, all the knowledge begins to mingle into incomprehensible mumbo-jumbo. I go
home, finish my homework, immerse myself in some mindless television, shower,
forget all about school, and sleep. The next morning I wake up, drag myself out
of my warm, comfortable bed, and repeat the exact same schedule. It’s
monotonous really. Maybe I should just YOLO and not blog… Ever… But then my
grade would suffer. And it really can’t take anymore suffering… Even if I want
to live life to the fullest, I can’t. Well, not without some serious
consequences. I don’t think William Cullen Bryant mentioned any consequences in
“Thanatopsis”…
I suppose the
argument is that all my hard work will pay off in the future. Then I will be
able to live my life to the fullest right? But then won’t I be working for a
good 30-40 years? So unless work=YOLO… The point is, I can’t YOLO even if I
want to YOLO. (Yes I just made YOLO a verb.) YOLO-ing would likely land me in
jail, for theft, arson, you name it, and spending the remainder of my life in prison
would NOT be very fun. So I guess my YOLO-ing must be limited to a smaller
scale where there are limited consequences that I can endure without too much
pain. And hey! Look! I finished my blog! YAY! I guess I didn’t need to YOLO
this one. Or maybe Ms. Valentino can just try to understand our lives and be
more open-minded about all the hard work we are already forced through like
David Foster Wallace suggests…
(Dear Ms.
Valentino,
If you are reading
this, please don’t get mad at me. I didn’t YOLO this blog. And the David Foster Wallace comment was a
joke. I think.)
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