Hey kid. Yes, you. Listen to me for a minute. You don’t understand how life works yet, do you? Of course not, you’re you. So let me clue you in a bit; nothing is free. Everything requires hard work. Baffled yet? Probably not, so let me elaborate. Whenever you do something it affects your life. Whenever you don’t do something, it affects it more. You’ll fail over and over no matter what, but if you don’t try at all you’ll just suck too much. So get working. The more you slack off the worse you’ll be when you actually put in effort; the fun isn’t worth it. You’re wasting too much time and you’ve got to stop it or you’ll be extremely frustrated with everything you attempt in the future. And believe me, I know a lot about the future… we’ve got iPhones.
So get to work. Write more, draw more, and save all the money you get. I don’t care if you want a Gameboy, you won’t care later. If you don’t start caring about the future, you’ll never get the present right. And for god’s sake, start working out. It doesn’t matter if you’re lazy, it’ll make you less lazy in the future. Scared yet? I would be. Or I am… or was…wait, what?
You started out strong. I don't know how but the beginning kind of had a bitter, dark-humor feel--like you're saying to your younger self, "It won't matter that I tell you this because you'll screw up anyway."
ReplyDeleteI love how you utilized the phrases "Of course not" and "Probably not." As if you're not letting your younger self decide how he feels, because you know, and you're telling him. (That sounded better in my head.)
The end of the first paragraph was funny; "I know a lot about the future...we've got iPhones." It gave it sort of a comic relief...but not really. It seems like you tried to make the second paragraph as grave as the first, but then you let the comedy side take over and you ended pretty weak. If you were to rewrite this, I would suggest the message would have more of an impact if you ended as grave as you had started, and try to save your comedic impulses for lighter work.