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The Dave's Update, included with To-Draw List. |
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Hello all.
Just a glimpse. Just a little reminder. Just another update to my journal.
As I sit here, listening to the album of my and many other's childhood (Weezer's Blue Album), I am granted with the type of activity that doesn't really come around to me as often as it has in the past: the opportunity to gather my thoughts and think about my life. In the course of a few months, I have made some pretty life-altering decisions, made some pretty life-altering trips and met some pretty life-altering people. Long story short, without another mention of the term 'life-altering,'(s**t.) I am the happiest that I've ever been in my life. This even beats the Christmas of 2000 when I was taking a nap while listening to my cousin quietly playing Donkey Kong 64. (for some reason, I was just in my personal nirvana that day. Maybe it was the nice little tune that was playing.)
Once the wheels start turning, I plan to see myself in California, pursuing my career in the field of Graphic Arts. While there, I'll have the pleasure, and challenge, of living alone, without a parental unit to fall back on financially or few friends in sight. In a sense, it can be a little disorienting, but at the same time, you feel proud; reassured in the fact that you're finally in a situation where you're independent, where you create the rules and live to your own standards. But, living on your own doesn't really mean you have an all-PARTY!!!! schedule, the mindless, repetitive tune of Eddie Murphy's seminal Party All the Time ringing in your head. With independence comes a sense of responsibility and mild caution. If you blow through your paycheck, don't expect to see any more money until your next one. If you run out of food, well then, you're pretty much screwed. It's this internal awareness of what to do and how to go about doing it that really determines what kind of adult you grow up to be. I should know this much. This is pretty much my first internal monologue about adulthood.
But, obviously, life doesn't always have to be a cautionary balancing act of responsibilities. You have only one life, so why not enjoy it? Read a book, go to that show, play a video game, listen to that shitty record you picked up at the store because you thought the album art looked cool. Just plain have fun when you have the opportunity, if not only to get away from the daily doldrums of life. Take me, for example. I do everything that I just listed above, with the added notion of drawing. Your activities will vary, but as long as you have fun, go for it. If someone tells you that you shouldn't enjoy yourself, turn a deaf ear to them, because quite frankly, that person is wrong. And not just any kind of wrong. It's that arrogant, unctuous kind of wrong that likes to masquerade as erudition.
Rest assured, I'm not trying to tell you people how to run your lives, if that's what you're thinking. Far from it. Take this as some kind of twisted reminder that yes, life is full of responsibilities at every step you take, because once you're done one specific task, another one pops up just right around the corner. It can get stressful and very mundane, very quickly. The best anecdote for this is to have fun and hang out with good company. This way, life can be bearable and worth living. We all need a pick-me-up at times in our lives. Hopefully, what I've said has done just that to anyone who reads this, be it my friends or a completely random stranger. Whatever you do in your lives, have the best time doing it.
That is the lesson.
With my consciousness telling me to practice what I preach, here is my To-Draw list for the coming weeks:
- 'In This Twilight' commission
- Happy New Year 2008 picture
- More Bohtaro concepts
~ Dave
 FLCLboy · Wed Jan 09, 2008 @ 01:36am · 0 Comments |
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