Useless...Shit

Useless...Shit: How To Deal With Unnecessary Things

These last few days all I have seen a lot of things around college. There are bright eyed and nervous freshman students. As I enter my final year at college I reminisce on all the things that I did freshman year. Crazy shit. I look at all the sad parents who block traffic to cry and kiss their kids goodbye for the next few months. What I see on the faces of these young cats is potential. Potential energy can be deadly. It's much like fire, it can be used as a tool to create and advance or burn down and destroy. Some of them will slip into alcoholism, much like myself, deal with the pressures of maintaining a social reputation and even fall through the academic cracks and find themselves making sex calls for a living after dropping out. Others will go on to start clubs and organizations, will rise to the ranks and become future doctors and dentists, much like myself, and even find themselves out and about traveling the world. But what I see the most on move in day is so much useless shit. Seriously, why the hell do you need to bring a bookcase into your dorm the size of a church pew? How many books do you have? Are you a hermit who lives with cats and creepily sits on the couch at all hours of the day like my neighbor? Why did you go out and buy pots and pans and you can't even boil water? You bought a guitar to school because you've decided that you lack musical prowess and want to take up the strings during your first semester? No, the one thing I want to bring to the table is how to deal with the useless shit in our lives, both concrete and abstract.

Let's admit it, some of us have a hoarding problem. It's understandable to keep the first bottle you bought or the books you read in middle school but there is no point in holding onto the yes-no notes we passed in class. We've got to learn how to judge what is really important to our future; the past already happened and absolutely nothing can be done about that except look at it. The past is like a zoo, you can look all you want at the animals but the minute you try and reach out to it, you find yourself with a bite on the finger and simian bacteria running through your blood. In terms of real things, hold onto something that defines who you are NOW! Don't let it be something that you once stood for, especially if it's from your darker days. Be smart and realize that who you are now is not who you were yesterday and as cliche as that sounds, there is truth in cliches.

Totally recommend this movie with George Clooney.

Now now now, baggage is poison. It's a slow death and usually consists of some underlying elements at work. We all have baggage on this flight called life however some individuals learn how to fly with less baggage or efficiently handle it. Whether it's emotional, physical, spiritual, financial, social, academic, or mental problems you've got to learn how to deal with it. That's essentially what growing up is all about. It's not some grand scheme where one day you are an adult, no it's about handling the issues and problems in a relatively mature and thought out manner. Fuck whatever else anybody told you about growing up. Life doesn't get easier when you get older, but yet people still manage to walk around with smiles on their faces? That's because they have amazing baggage claiming capabilities. Don't let them fool you and think that there life is perfect because that's more bullshit than Lindsay Lohan staying sober for 16 minutes. Everybody always harps on never being the person known as "someone with a lot of baggage" but honestly how can you even live your own life with baggage? How do you wake up in the morning and the first thought is about something from your past; can you not even enjoy the damn sunlight for a minute before wallowing? It shouldn't even come down to what other people say about you, it's what you say to yourself in the interrogation room located in your inner cerebellum. You subconsciously stuff your face full of food that you can't digest and when it's time for that food to come out, you find out that twelve rounds of Candy Crush Saga have already passed while you were still removing shit. I say this because life does that to you, it overloads your mainframe and expects you to still compute, transmit and accept new data. However we find often that our hard drive occasionally crashes and we slip into rock bottom. When you are at rock bottom, I beg of you to remember this: there's only two choices you can make...you can either stay at the bottom or climb back up out of the hole. Life is a hunter who has laid traps that resemble our pasts. It looks important, smells relative, and can even feel brand new but nonetheless it's a trap. It's essentially a Shadow Clone Jutsu. 

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's Rock Bottom Tribute 

Don't Get Rock-Bottomed By Life

Baggage can make each day seem like a living hell that's why it's imperative that you clean out your mind annually. Same way you clean out your house, do that. Fix the leaky thought pipes to avoid any flooding ideas. Spark the furnace located in your heart. Adjust the air conditioning of your physical condition and get healthy. After you've thoroughly analyzed and cleaned out your mental mansion, take a moment and enjoy a cold beverage because that's tough stuff. It's not a task that can be done in a day but I promise that you will feel better once it's been done. So to those of you reading this, take the time to throw away the useless shit. You're never going to get back those moments, so dead the idea. Anything you wish you would've done, either do it or don't; there's no point contemplating an empty opportunity. Enjoy the life that you were granted because it's the only one you've got...unless you have some sort of immortality or regenerative capabilities. I cannot stress this fact enough that holding onto unnecessary things is pointless. It's like carrying around a dead corpse in a war zone, if you know its dead it only slows you down and makes you a more vulnerable target to die yourself. It's a sacrifice indeed and may sometimes be a harder decision than ice cream or nutella, but it's a sacrifice you will be thankful for in the long run. Just do it.

Mickeys Mental Interior Decorating Squad

Fuck the rules of society and throw away the useless shit. Be a free human for once in your enslaved life. 

~White Rabbit