To be honest, I never really cared much for education and don’t care if I learn anything new. I haven’t been to school since the end of high school. I never went to college and never plan to. Something I remember telling people back when I was in school was that when it was all over, I would be done with that type of schedule, having to get up and go places early in the morning, ETC. Despite this statement, my life has been anything but relaxing. Since high school I’ve been forced to join groups that I don’t like and even at one point had a job in the government where I did nothing of significance. I didn’t care about my colleagues or the fact that I even had a job. Every day was the same thing. I would slack off and get nothing done which earned me criticism from people who were supposed to be my friends. This is the thing I don’t understand or agree with about the world. So many people care about the impact they make on it. They feel as though their accomplishments will have a lasting effect on how people view them. People that do nothing after school or college generally feel like they will be frowned upon by others who deem them lazy and uneducated, ETC. From what I’ve seen, even people who are more disabled than I am want to make a bigger impact fearing that no one will praise their efforts as if that even matters. Well, here’s the way I look at it. As long as I don’t break the law in any way and as long as I have a certain level of respect and don’t start trouble, ETC, then I will not be frowned upon by society. So many people base their legitimacy in the world by the type of job they have and the amount of money they make. To be fair, I used to be like this myself but on a much smaller scale. I used to complain when more people had money than I did and would even stay up all hours of the night fearing that I would be labelled a loser if people could afford more than me, ETC. Where did all those complaints get me? I was forced to get a job and for ten months I was pushed by mom and my supposed friends to get up and pretty much make my mark on society. That’s what a job is to me. You may work to get paid but in the end, people who care about doing so will feel a sense of accomplishment having done something meaningful with their lives. I don’t fall into this category of people. I generally believe that making my mark on society is being an upstanding citizen who maintains a clean criminal record regardless of what happens throughout his life. The world will only frown upon those who commit crimes and hurt people and don’t follow rules, ETC. Those are the people who should be frowned upon. If being frowned upon by society was based on dollars and cents, then people closest to me would be frowned upon every five minutes. The fact is that it isn’t though. One thing I have learned is that dollars and cents don’t define a person. Their willingness to be decent people and not break the law every chance they get does. I’ve never been to jail, never been arrested and most importantly never been on a police officer’s bad side. I haven’t done anything wrong or anything to warrant that type of treatment so therefore, when I look back on my life, I will see a man who was decent in the eyes of those around him having never done anything bad. If my only crime in life was being lazy, uneducated and broke most of the time, well that just makes me like most other people who are broke but not necessarily lazy or uneducated. In my mind, those people who sit there and accuse me of being lazy, (and these people know exactly who they are,) clearly have nothing better to do with their time. They’re just trying to hide their own shortcomings by trying to make others feel bad. More specifically, this applies to my friend’s wife who has been annoying me in her own way since I quit my job in the government about having not made the most of the presented opportunity where she would have. I would love to see her try and do the things I had to do while I was there.
The point is that I don’t have to be a company bigwig or a millionaire to make an impact on the world. The fact is that there are millions of people aside from me who have ruined their lives by getting arrested and sent to jail. They’ll never have the opportunity to say they never did anything to harm anybody, never ruined anybody’s life but most of all…..have a clear conscience and a clean record. They may not have this opportunity but I will. To me, this is all that matters. The biggest impact anybody can make is by staying within the law and being somebody that everybody can count on rather than somebody who everybody hates as a results of the decisions they’ve made to be put in jail.
To make it simple, as long as I do nothing wrong, (because that’s what would result in me being arrested and losing the respect of those around me,) I can be seen in a positive way despite me not having or wanting a job or to do things. I do nothing wrong….nothing to bother or hurt anybody so that in itself should be enough for people to think highly of me. After 35 years, I plan on continuing my streak of having my clean record. With this in mind, there should be no reason for anybody to think any less than highly of me. You don’t need millions of dollars or a good job for people to think you’re an upstanding citizen. All you need is to know the difference between right and wrong.
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