Hey, have you ever taken some time to recall and cherish moments from the past? Yes? Did you also compare what you are now vs. what you were back then? No? Keep on reading this then. If your answer was a strong “yes”, then abandon all hope and set this magazine on fire – no mercy! Just joking! But hey, you will be one step closer to someone else's mind – how maddening is this?
And so there I was, slapping my fingers across my phone and I came across some post on 9gag that said "Don't think of the past – this is not the direction you are going" etc. with 20,000+ likes. Well, f@@k you 9gag and all the 20k clicks. I believe that we came up with the word "past" and use it in the language we speak for a bloody reason.
Then I squeeze myself in a nicely animal-skin-wrapped sofa and reflect on my past once again, while going all dragon mode on my e-pipe. I do not get stuck in between the thoughts like an average American in between the fast food entrance or like Windows Vista (Windows 8 is no better though) – I analyse. Am I doing the things I had wanted to do? How much is left? Did I catch up with the things and people I had wanted to? How much did I change as a person? Am I who I so wanted to be?
I mean, it is there to remind us of something – our dreams, aspirations when we were a kid. Genuine, pure and crazy. Why do you need to detach that little kid from yourself as it were a Lego puzzle? You cannot do a massive "laundry" to make your memories white again, you know what I mean?
Think of your life as a coat – wearing it during the bad weather is tough and soaked with rain water and when it is bright – everything feels so light. During the storm you better sit at home though, okay buddy? Or even better – imagine that your life as Curriculum Vitae – CV. Yes, this the kind of document, which we nowadays shrink to a few pages and call it “Life achievements”. Really?
I know that when I was as a kid, I also had my aspirations – it helps me understand where I am now as a person + the way I thought in the past vs. now = me. There is no other formula for this, Mr. Engineer. So what, all those character-building years, that invisible ladder to your goal, your friends, your family – ain't got no space in the CV? Surely, big-headed Mr Guillotine Finance won't care – he wants to be sure you type buttons, write pretty letters and see a lot of scribbles on the black-and-white paper called yo C no V (giving him that pleasure of seeing so much stuff cramped in there – you did your homework!) – that's about it. But do not despair, my friend – it could be worse (and it will probably be in about 10-20 years from now) but hear me out.
I myself am most likely no good at drawing (my hands are shaking because of heavy drinking), writing, coding, public speaking, etc. but I proudly can look behind my back and recall so many juicy moments and adventures I have gone through – this is something you cannot put on just a few pages, make an artwork of it, code the hack out of it or tell to everyone so well they would want to see the second chapter of it (or may be they would, if you were talking about teenage vampires or something alike) – no. But you can experience this and carry with you – that's what matters. And there must not be any shame in doing something you adore, going place you have never been to – even if you cannot put this all on paper for the Big Boss to see it. No one will know you beyond that little A4 paper, with black ink printed in from your college library. Neither should you fear or not do things you cannot put on paper – they are just not meant to go on paper. You are not a paper.Hey, have you ever taken some time to recall and cherish moments from the past? Yes? Did you also compare what you are now vs. what you were back then? No? Keep on reading this then. If your answer was a strong “yes”, then abandon all hope and set this magazine on fire – no mercy! Just joking! But hey, you will be one step closer to someone else's mind – how maddening is this?
And so there I was, slapping my fingers across my phone and I came across some post on 9gag that said "Don't think of the past – this is not the direction you are going" etc. with 20,000+ likes. Well, f@@k you 9gag and all the 20k clicks. I believe that we came up with the word "past" and use it in the language we speak for a bloody reason.
Then I squeeze myself in a nicely animal-skin-wrapped sofa and reflect on my past once again, while going all dragon mode on my e-pipe. I do not get stuck in between the thoughts like an average American in between the fast food entrance or like Windows Vista (Windows 8 is no better though) – I analyse. Am I doing the things I had wanted to do? How much is left? Did I catch up with the things and people I had wanted to? How much did I change as a person? Am I who I so wanted to be?
I mean, it is there to remind us of something – our dreams, aspirations when we were a kid. Genuine, pure and crazy. Why do you need to detach that little kid from yourself as it were a Lego puzzle? You cannot do a massive "laundry" to make your memories white again, you know what I mean?
Think of your life as a coat – wearing it during the bad weather is tough and soaked with rain water and when it is bright – everything feels so light. During the storm you better sit at home though, okay buddy? Or even better – imagine that your life as Curriculum Vitae – CV. Yes, this the kind of document, which we nowadays shrink to a few pages and call it “Life achievements”. Really?
I know that when I was as a kid, I also had my aspirations – it helps me understand where I am now as a person + the way I thought in the past vs. now = me. There is no other formula for this, Mr. Engineer. So what, all those character-building years, that invisible ladder to your goal, your friends, your family – ain't got no space in the CV? Surely, big-headed Mr Guillotine Finance won't care – he wants to be sure you type buttons, write pretty letters and see a lot of scribbles on the black-and-white paper called yo C no V (giving him that pleasure of seeing so much stuff cramped in there – you did your homework!) – that's about it. But do not despair, my friend – it could be worse (and it will probably be in about 10-20 years from now) but hear me out.
I myself am most likely no good at drawing (my hands are shaking because of heavy drinking), writing, coding, public speaking, etc. but I proudly can look behind my back and recall so many juicy moments and adventures I have gone through – this is something you cannot put on just a few pages, make an artwork of it, code the hack out of it or tell to everyone so well they would want to see the second chapter of it (or may be they would, if you were talking about teenage vampires or something alike) – no. But you can experience this and carry with you – that's what matters. And there must not be any shame in doing something you adore, going place you have never been to – even if you cannot put this all on paper for the Big Boss to see it. No one will know you beyond that little A4 paper, with black ink printed in from your college library. Neither should you fear or not do things you cannot put on paper – they are just not meant to go on paper. You are not a paper.
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