confused
Published on May 9, 2004 By black ballons In Misc
i'm so lost.

i had been wasting my time away... with longview by greenday (i got no motivation/ where is my motivation/ no time for motivation/ smoking my inspiration) playing somewhere in the background of my head... and i happen to run across the xangas (i hate them.. thats why im on this joeuser, but they're call out to the time wasters such as me) of some old people i use to know...

they're out living the "ganster" life. it's kinda funny... i remember playing with one during 3rd.. we were pretty close.. i dont think we would even say "hi" if we saw each other...

and im here living the damn whitney (my gay academic magnet school thats really just bull shit) life... and hating it

dont get me wrong. i dont want to be out there with them.. i know damn well i wouldnt fit it.. but what i have isnt me either...

yea yea yea.. its the same teenage melocrap about not being able to know my "purpose" or shit.

i remember talkin to someone.. i forget who... and we said that we were so unhappy cuz life's not meant to look for happiness. life is just to survive. but now in america today, survival is so given, we're just drifting.

but back to the title. i mean... i guess i've been enamored by the cocept of defiance and rebellion for a while now. but... im really fuckin joking myself. i'm the one who goes to the gay ass magnet school, receives half decent grades, have curfew, blah blah blah. but doing all those "delinquent" (as some people from my school would say) shit, thinking ur all gansta, isnt rebelling either. true rebellion is when u know who you are and u fight the society that oppresses you.

i hate the fact that im so trapped by this society. i cant run away and live an itinerant life... living off the good will of other people like the olden days. i have to go to school, get a job, work, die or be named a "useless." there's no way out.

i cant look and see how some people just take it. some do other stuff to take it away.. and some do the other stuff just because. i do it for both. and i hate and love myself for it.

"bite my lip and close my eyes.. take me away to paradise..."
-longview by greenday

Comments
on May 09, 2004
Hey Black Ballon? or is it Balloon? Either way...never saw an article from you before so I thought I'd say "what up?" I think you're on the right track to defiance...especially on a societal level. It's not so much the rebellious things you do, but moreso the way you choose to live your life in opposition to the forces that would line you up with the rest of the sheep. Anyway, I know it's a stressful concept, trying to figure out how you sold out so much, but you gotta keep everything in perspective. How is what you're doing now going to get you to where you truly want to be...that's more important in the long run. We all sell out a little bit.

Baaaa,
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