I blame this all on my going to see Across the Universe.
Why can't I move to California and live in a van? Why can't you? What in society has restricted us and caused our brains to not allow us to have that freedom that I know some of us really want and need.
I don't blame University for this, but I think Colleges across the US should encourage, hell, require that all of us take a year off of school and instead of the payment for tuition, let us move to NYC for a year, go to Europe, Australia, japan, Hawaii, Utah, Canada, even California. Because we are going to regret our lives later if we don't just see the world and do whatever it is we want to do.
In Japan there is a new trend going on where students, like ourselves, just finish getting their high school degrees and work part time jobs while they focus on living life instead of the main stream corporate life style their country has pushed on everyone. They focus on seeing Japan and fashion and being themselves.
Last night I was driving home from my job and I was just jamming out to the Across the Universe soundtrack. I was listening to Helter Skelter (which is sung by a girl that has a voice like Janis Joplin) and I was just freaking out. My windows were down, I was banging on my steering wheel and screaming the lyrics. It was about 11 pm and I was getting close my neighbor hood and I got this little smirk across my face that wouldn't go away. And I just drove right past. And the back of my mind said "Lets go to California." I only have about 250 dollars to my name right now. But I was bent on going to California. And mind you, I live in Houston Texas...
Then the song ended....the little angel on my shoulder shoved the devil into a corner and said "what the HELL are you doing?! Go home!" I was pretty close to the freeway and I did a U-turn and came home.
But Why didn't I go? Because I need to get a degree and do a good job and focus on making a life and a family instead of living my life NOW! My parents almost did it to, they almost sold everything and toured America on the back of a motorcycle, but my mom got pregnant with me. And boom, that couldn't happen. So before life grabs me and pulls me under, why not move to California and live in a van?
I know that the free love generation had a lot of repercussions that most of them were not very pleased with and that they were a big minority, but what happened to that? Why does our generation not have that?
We DO have a War going on? So where are those hippies? Writing blogs on here and making videos on YouTube directly to the president telling him to stop...Why are we not on Washington trying to stop it? Where are those free love girls wearing flowers in their hair in San Fransisco. Where did they all go?
To be honest I might save my money for the next year, and when the next fall semester starts, pack up the important stuff, and travel the US for a while. Live off the fruits of the land (or just fruit from the grocery store) and go to the Grand Canyon, go to the Mississippi River, go to the Boston, Florida, see the Forests of Orgean, The Great Lakes, I want to see Alaska. I want to live in a shitty apartment in NYC, I want to dance around a fire on the beach in California while someone plays a guitar, I want to climb the tallest trees and most of all I want to be 40 years old and look back on my life and say "Wow, I saw everything didn't I?"
I can tell your right now that these lyrics are exactly how I feel right now:
Blackbird- The Beatles
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these sunken eyes and learn to see
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to be free.
Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.
Blackbird fly, Blackbird fly
Into the light of the dark black night.
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
All your life
You were only waiting for this moment to arise,oh
You were only waiting for this moment to arise, oh
You were only waiting for this moment to arise
Peace.
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