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user-inactivated  ·  1494 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Holy wack

    everyone at that party was either a teacher or a cop-in-training. That's not a party. That's a nightmare. Bad puns. "Haha can you arrest me?" I mean you're trying to get laid but weren't you the stoner kid?

Go easy on your friends. There's nothing wrong with being teachers or cops. In essence, both are respectable, worthwhile, necessary roles a person can take in society. That there are problems surrounding both aren't reflective of the jobs themselves, but the failings of the designs of the current systems they operate in. If these jobs have created in your friends a chance to be something more than just "stoner kids," you should commend them for trying to be bigger, encourage their growth, and maybe encourage them to try and rise above the failings of the system.

I'm not gonna tell you that you gotta be like them, but like you, like me, like everyone, we all gotta find our places in the world. To do that requires learning and curiosity, introspection and humility, a desire for constant growth, improvement, and change. Most of all it requires communication and feedback from the world around us, not just the people in our lives who are there for good or bad, but everything. Science. Art. Noise. Silence. Everything.

So keep being you dude, but keep growing, and more importantly, encourage others around you to grow too. After all, we're unfathomably small in an unfathomably large and harsh universe, but in each of us is a greatness that is equally unfathomable. The only way to grasp it is to reach for it and the only way to reach for it is to remind ourselves and each other that it's there, waiting for us, every single day.

23 was the worse year of my life, hands down. But it also made me a bigger man than it would have if it was easy.