November...

[THE DARKHORSE]

November reminds me of my twentieth birthday. It's just far enough from Summer to feel like Winter, but depending on the season...not even close. Maybe that's just the way I think of that time in my life, now. I'm sure we all remember being nineteen: You think you've got it all figured out, you've got your drivers license, maybe even your own car, graduated from high school...but still a freakin' teenager.

Then we turn twenty, oh man, those awkward pimply days are disappearing in the rear view mirror, quickly. From the perspective of a twenty year old, graduating from your teen years is an achievement in itself. Then again, besides no longer being a teenager what the hell's the difference?

Not that going to clubs full of the drinking and mischievous debauchery, along with all forms of temptation is the goal in life. But when you're twenty, yearning for the day you turn twenty-one...seems like an eternity! You might as well be seventeen again, time stands still. I can only speak for myself, but that was the longest year of my life. Man, what I would do to go back when the time seemed to crawl. Those were the days!


Most people around this time in life are thinking about furthering their education, if not already on the fast-track. Rightfully so. The movers and shakers of the future are half way to their bachelors degree by then, if not already thinking about graduate school. And let's hope by this time you've got an idea of what in the hell you're going to do for the rest of your life. If you don't take this time in your life seriously, you might end up wearing a blue shirt that says "MPA's Work". Or worse, end up as a fishing guide on the West Coast with your future in the hands of an obviously bias, bought and sold jury.

I think the statistics show many of us change careers a few times in life. Some by choice and others by means of survival. On this note, many a college credit goes down the toilet in vein. I think we all take a couple psychology classes even if they're not required. They're interesting, helpful in building relations no doubt, but that fork in the road comes for most of us when we have to buckle down and meet the requirements of our major. Unfortunately, having to decide between what we find interesting and what merits are required to further our own success.

Here's to when that light goes off in your head . When you realize that blue shirt someone told you to wear, or the pseudo science you've been pumping out to the sheeple amongst you, that what you believe in is a big pile of barnyard dung. And it doesn't take someone with a college education to know that. When you realize those classes you've been taking were great for your education, maybe even helped expand your mind, but didn't effect the timeline of your career...or becoming a better person. All my posts from this day forward are for you .


To my brothers who put our differences aside and fought the good fight, united we stand!


Get out and enjoy what, without our hard work, would have surely been lost.

The same feeling you might get with a 9'3" jig-stick on a kayak, pinned to the rail on a big pissed off fish, while being towed straight into three lobster pots, hopeless...sometimes you win!