The world is how any miserable person would imagine it to be. Like the Nolan brothers so humbly put; simple, solid all the way through. Are we really divided between suites and the creative? Must we classify ourselves as business men or artists? Every life has a screenplay but we criticize those who turn them into pieces of work. Every deal has legal remedies but we mock the bankers that bring them to fruition. We place ourselves on specific notches of an imaginable spectrum but we gladly live in each one even if only for a few moments. We want to be what we’re not but feel the need to pride ourselves on what we are. Communism preaches to a dying choir but is it far from what we deeply desire? A world where we are free to do what we please. If money wasn’t the root of all that is worshiped in this contradictory place we call the USA what would we find when we looked in the mirror? A banker? A screenwriter? A high school volleyball coach? Or maybe just someone who loves his family more than the renowned faces of our past president’s printed on worthless pieces of green paper.
I’ve run across a few many faces in my time that have asked the seemingly hypothetical question of why we are here. What our purpose is in this world. I’m not a scholar or an acclaimed professor but my answer is simple. To find happiness. We want a meaning for the word, but it differs for the 6 billion different people that roam our planet. I wish it were more selfless or complex but through these dark brown eyes, the simple explanation is a word most 10 year olds spell with a droop y; Happiness. Unimaginable for some, unattainable for most, the word brings with it so much more than just 9 letters.
But my advice to you is this. Don’t define the word based on the expectations of your friends family and the corrupt hypocritical media. Find what makes you happy and do whatever it takes to hold on to it. I always halfheartedly listened to the words of my parents accompanied with rolling eyes as they scolded me for being too young to understand this and too young to understand that. Well for the first time in my life I have realized that I will always be too young to understand. But our world is the here and now and like the great reincarnation of George Jung said, life passes most people by while they’re busy making grand plans for it. So enjoy the few things that make you happy. Make new friends, keep the old, and for god’s sake, stay goofy for as long as you can. Laughter doesn't just add years to your life it saves you in the years you’re living now. So like our forefathers foretold, pursue this thing we call happiness. You may find the pursuit is worth more than the double M resting on the front of the two toned overpriced car you spend your wakeless hours dreaming of.