Remember when we were just kids? Eating dirt and dog biscuits, catching ants, even burning them with magnifying glasses, then laying on the road to complete the afternoon. Those days where your best friends were your neighbors and when mum called you in you found yourself running inside for a 10 minute shower trying to wash the black off your feet from the road. The time when you had dunkaroos in your lunchbox, roll ups if you were lucky and soggy sandwiches from your frozen popper. Do you remember when you were young? I do. Memories like these are a humbling memoir for myself and for most people, but let’s cut to the chase. Lets focus on a question you will remember as vividly as the memories I’ve just explained. What do you wanna be when you grow up?
I think I wanted to be an astrologist or a soldier. Lets forget specifics for now however. This text will instead focus on the concept of why and how some people will live life so content with such small dreams. I call it ‘small town syndrome‘ and there are a lot of small towns in the world, so I’m sure that this can relate to not just my town, but many of yours. If you’ve ever felt a need to break free of your hometown confines and strive for better things, you can relate to this topic. In saying that, while I had visions of big city living and success on demand, and most of you may too, plenty of people don’t. It’s the people who live in circles, working 9-5 jobs slaving away for the big man Monday to Friday, waste their money on overpriced cocktails on the weekend then repeat the process come Monday. This is in no way critical of their lifestyle choice, I mean hell, these are the folk that make the world go round. I just feel like this is a determining factor, a divide if you must, between those who feel like they need to prove something, and those who are content with the way things are. In saying that, can anyone who’s only ever done one thing be sure that its the lifestyle they want to live given they haven’t tested the water in other realms?
Think about it, the key word being think. You’ve got talents and the potential to succeed, so be creative and think of what you as a person can do to benefit your life and further it. I found an astounding video that perfectly coincides with my feeling on the whole topic of ambition vs the daily grind. It’s a video made to show the world that there is a bigger and better globe out there to explore. In fact, there is so much land and earth, companies and corporations, entities and entitlements, that if everyone took their abilities and used them to a full extent, we could completely eradicate the term ‘wasted youth‘. If this article made even one person reconsider the safety of their 9 to 5 job and go out and explore and avenue they have always wished to enter, I think I’ve done my job. Until then, watch this on your lunch break!
MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
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Nice work Jack.
impressive work
Really earnest, really deep. Loved this.
thankyou means alot
Very nice, Jack
. And yes, I agree!
dope article. good reading the stuff your putting out