No f*cks to give
No fucks to give … no fucks given!
With age and wisdom comes life experiences; love them or hate them is irrelevant, they make you the person you are today. Kind of a shit play on what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. When you are twenty to twenty-five, what life experiences can you fucking possibly write about. Once you mature into the FOG (fucking old guy) in the room, you have hundreds of life experiences to help sculpt and guardrail the narrative story.
Where do you begin the self-discovery and realization that you are a misfit? Perhaps that is a strong word, misfit. However, everything seems like an overbearing and slanderous word when actualizing a lifetime of socially offset from the normal behavior. I suppose we all have our quirks and anomalies, isn’t that what makes us unique from everyone else?
I am no doctor, nor have I ever been properly analyzed and diagnosed by one regarding my mental state of mind. To be honest I really don’t know if I want to be, I accept me as me, and my actions and views of life as my own, even if perhaps it is a tunnel vision of the bigger picture, it doesn’t matter because in 55+ years I’ve only seen and appreciated my view of life.
My X-generation had a very different upbringing and surroundings in the formative years than later Y-gen and Millennials and all the various buckets recently defined. We were not raised in a society of desegregation and label-branding. Perhaps I should explain that bold statement. Present day, the educational system on the surface uses high-level terms like “mainstreaming” and “no child left behind”, in concept these visions seem to elude that the old philosophy of child upbringing was wrong and that all children are created exactly the same and perhaps the reason for different outcomes was environmental, financial, availability, etc, meaning the kids that didn’t do as well was because they were not given and equal opportunity. Equal opportunity is a big, stinky onion that we can peel back the layers of later because it is a misconception and argumentative hot button.
So we put all of America’s young minds together under the newfangled belief system as dictated by those in power to make this changes. Shortly we realize that indeed not all people are the same, even by breaking down barriers and leveling the mysterious playing field, not all youngsters are developed equally. Rather than accept the possibility that the post-Orwellian (anything after 1984) education model doesn’t work, we as a society look for band-aids to cover the problems caused by our grossly ill-conceived and broken system.
No matter what we don’t all fit into the same mold. Just like going to the mall clothes shopping, nothing is a one-size-fits-all. Buckets and labels are NOT required!