lacers asked: So, I've lived in Maryland my whole life and I'm about to graduate college in a few weeks. Any advice on how to get the hell out of Maryland?
ANSWER:
Hello Lacers, thanks for A.Looking at my tumblr and B.Thanks for asking me a question. I like questions.
Hello Lacers, thanks for A.Looking at my tumblr and B.Thanks for asking me a question. I like questions.
Congratulations on your upcoming College graduation! Since you are graduating I’m going to write to you like I’m writing to fellow adult, because you are and you’re about to head out into the world on your own and win some of lifes exciting battles!
The first thing I’m going to say is, your queston couldn’t have been more vague or, pardon me for saying, lazily asked. It was kindof asked in a “Mom, where’s the food?” manor. My first suggestion is for you to stand up out of your chair, look in a mirror and say “Yo! I’m about to grab the world with my left hand and smack it all up and down the street with my right!” now sit back down. We’re gonna talk about how YOU can get wherever YOU want to get in life!
You must be pro-active my friend… I went and looked at your tumblr. I did some reading and found that you’re being awarded a degree in International Studies or Affairs or something like that… I also read that you “HATE school” and that you “studied a subject someone else chose for you” (forgive me for paraphrasing). I didn’t find out if you are a girl or a dude, but it doesn’t really matter, because anyone can do what you are about to do. Anyone can take on the world. Anyone can stand up and walk out the door and walk up a hill that becomes a mountain… YOU ARE ABOUT TO DO JUST THAT IF YOU WANT TO… HERE IS HOW
1. Sell everything you own that does not get you closer to your dream. Televisions and collections or dumb stuff is the first to go. If you have a gaming system you are not allowed to complain about not having money. If you eat fast food instead of making peanut butter and jelly, you are not allowed to complain about not having money. If you drink beer (or anything that costs more than tap water) you are not allowed to complain about not having money. Ingenuity is so SEXY and if you think I’m kidding, watch people’s faces when you tell them stories about how you make the impossible things possible via ingenuity. You are the only thing in your way.
2. Stop reading defeatest crap like Chuck Palaniuk… seriously, you’re asking me for advice and entertaining negative ideas like this? Just so we’re clear, I read this on your blog…
[“I’m reminded of this quote that I love from the book “Choke” by Chuck Palahniuk: “I’m educated enough to talk myself out of any plan. To deconstruct any fantasy. Explain away any goal. I’m so smart I can negate any dream.”]
I don’t feel bad for quitters… quitting is a choice and it’s a choice you can change every day. Every time I meet a quitter or a negative person I work twice as hard, because I’m fueled by it. I don’t read defeatest manafestos or romanticise negative things. I have far enough to climb without putting rocks in my pockets or on my back.
3. Do you know what you want to do? “What we want to do” is often funded by “What we can do”.
Did you know you can take the Bolt Bus from D.C. to Philli, New York or Boston for 20$!! You can get your money together, find a hotel room and take your best friend to a city on the Eastern Seaboard and apply for a job “You can do” while you intern at the “Job you want to do” whenever you are not working at the job “You can do”
— This is the point where I really want to tell you about my experiences with sleeping on people’s floors, couches, in my car… without heat, hot water, eating garbage… but you’re just going to have to wait for the book.
Did you know you can take the Bolt Bus from D.C. to Philli, New York or Boston for 20$!! You can get your money together, find a hotel room and take your best friend to a city on the Eastern Seaboard and apply for a job “You can do” while you intern at the “Job you want to do” whenever you are not working at the job “You can do”
— This is the point where I really want to tell you about my experiences with sleeping on people’s floors, couches, in my car… without heat, hot water, eating garbage… but you’re just going to have to wait for the book.
I would never wish hardships on anyone, but I promise your hardships will prove to be more valuable than you’ll ever know.
4.GET OBSESSED!!
Get obsessed with whatever it is that you want to do… Put it first. Treat it like your significant other. Be prepared to miss everything, every important day, there are no such things as holidays in an obsessed world, there is no weekend… there isn’t even really a night or day… there is no lunch, there is no lunch break… GET OBSESSED!!!
People love to go to the theatre and cry into a 20$ bucket of popcorn over an inspiring Will Smith movie, where he sleeps in the bathroom and figures out Rubics Cubes… nobody wants to be the one cleaning the toilets at the movie theatre… I’m gonna let you in on a secret… The person who cleans the toilets watches free movies, eats free popcorn and gets paid to do all of it. DO YOU GET MY DRIFT?
Lacers… you don’t have to be in a hurry to get out of anywhere… You have to find your dream. Fall in love with it. Become obsessed with it. Live your life chasing it. Living your life, chasing a dream means not every having to worry about where you are in the process. The opinions of others mean nothing to a person obsessed with the life they are living!
I truly believe that you can find your dream, plan it out and chase it for the rest of your life… smiling most all of the way.
Get obsessed with whatever it is that you want to do… Put it first. Treat it like your significant other. Be prepared to miss everything, every important day, there are no such things as holidays in an obsessed world, there is no weekend… there isn’t even really a night or day… there is no lunch, there is no lunch break… GET OBSESSED!!!
People love to go to the theatre and cry into a 20$ bucket of popcorn over an inspiring Will Smith movie, where he sleeps in the bathroom and figures out Rubics Cubes… nobody wants to be the one cleaning the toilets at the movie theatre… I’m gonna let you in on a secret… The person who cleans the toilets watches free movies, eats free popcorn and gets paid to do all of it. DO YOU GET MY DRIFT?
Lacers… you don’t have to be in a hurry to get out of anywhere… You have to find your dream. Fall in love with it. Become obsessed with it. Live your life chasing it. Living your life, chasing a dream means not every having to worry about where you are in the process. The opinions of others mean nothing to a person obsessed with the life they are living!
I truly believe that you can find your dream, plan it out and chase it for the rest of your life… smiling most all of the way.
See you on the road to destiny,
-JM
-JM
oh btw..the twins also GMH. they were planning about trending #FALLOUTBOYNEWALBUM on twitter. My love for good charlotte and fall out boy is infinite
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