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What
was once rebellion is now clearly just a social
sect, but are you just upset because your own
social clique has left? Leave when you want because
I know that someday I will too but I won't burn
my bridges and be just another jaded fool.
Those
are lyrics from an old Operation Ivy song that
I find very true. I remember a few years ago when
my friends and I could pick up a 20 bag and a
few 40oz's of Old English and trash the city.
That's done with now and I miss it.
When
you get older no matter how much you don't want
it, or try to deny it, responsibility is bestowed
on you. For some reason or another you can't take
the chance of getting arrested because you wanted
to toss a picnic table around the city park. As
you get older the consequences of your actions
seem as though they become much harsher.
I
shaved off my Mohawk when I started seeing really
young kids with them. I saw this one 10 year old
watering his moms flowers wearing a shirt that
said "If it's not loud, it's not punk"
It nearly made me loose it. A few days later I
saw an even younger kid with one too. He was buying
penny candy in a convenience store with his dad.
I'm
sitting here looking back at the way things once
were and wondering what ever happened. When did
things change? Why did things change?
My
social clique from years ago has sort of survived.
There are a few close friends of mine that haven't
changed much. I hang out with these friends every
once in a while but it's really weird, it's like
a look back into the past at the way I once was.
I
don't like change and I don't like admitting that
I have changed, but it's undeniable... I have.
I don't dress like I used to; I hung up my jacket
that was covered in patches, I grew out my hawk
and am left with a fro that has no actual style
to it. When I get my hair cut I just sit down
and say "Make it shorter," I took the
safety pins out of my ears and even took off my
padlock chain. My womp-ass (HUGE chain used as
a belt, held together with a shower curtain hook
for easy removal.) which would make anyone have
second thoughts about picking a fight with us
can't even be found now.
The
piece of me that hasn't changed is what keeps
me going. Chains, pins, patches are all just for
show. MY MIND is still the same.
Punk
means thinking for your self... you aren't hardcore
when you spike your hair if a jock still lives
inside your head.
I
still drink every weekend. I don't comb my hair.
I don't wear name brand clothes and I really don't
care. I still have the same angst that I had when
I was younger, just some of it has gotten a little
more complex. I still don't care. My mind still
works the way it did, but it has been corrupted
with some reasoning. Things that I would never
have cared about now cause me to take an extra
moment to think about what I'm about to do.
"Oh,
wait a minute Kyle, you shouldn't pick a fight
with that guy," Shut-up conscious I never
needed you before what are you doing here now?
I just want to hit that guy! "But that would
be wrong Kyle, what would it solve? You don't
need to do that..." AAahhh fuck off. *SMACK*...
and then I spend the night in jail. "Heh
Heh I told you so, maybe you'll listen to me next
time you good for nothing crackass motherfucker."
Hey, I thought you were on my side!
Growing
up is a pain in the mind. My teenage years
are gone, but mentally I'm stuck in them. I'm
too stubborn to grow up. I'm not looking forward
to spending the next 40 years of my life working
some job that I don't like.
Their
are hard choices that have to be made. Maybe I
should move to Amsterdam or Christiania, two places
where drugs are legal and life is slow and less
troublesome. We are raised in a certain environment
that we take in and call our own. We feel as if
this is mine, this is where I should stay, this
is where I've always been, this is where I belong.
That's
all bullshit, there is nothing stopping you from
packing up and moving to Australia so you can
live near the ocean and never again have to shovel
snow. Don't as WHY, ask WHY NOT.
This
is getting long and I
have drugs to smoke and drugs to eat.
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