The right to be Arrogant.

Yesterday I got a letter (e-mail) from University of Western Australia my application has been accepted; UWA is one of my ‘just-incase’ choices. As I read the letter, it finally dawned upon me that I am moving forward. Soon, I will be undertaking my bachelor’s degree, now if we follow the generic thinking of society I would almost immediately after graduating get a job. This is all in the assumption that the world is not in some huge depressing recession, a meteor hasn’t started the second ice age, world war three hasn’t occurred and I am still able to function adequately with my balls in place.

After getting a job either in foreign soil or back home and establishing a career I would most likely would want to start a family, grow old, die happy from cancer, bla bla bla. No. At my age I don’t give a fuck about a family, and for me I don’t give a fuck about relationships right now. Being nineteen has some perks, for one I have the right to be arrogant. I can push people aside and bellow, ‘Step aside, Irfan is here!’

I think being arrogant while your young and ignorant is a good thing. At this point of our life, sometimes younger, sometimes a little older, we create dreams. I’m not talking about those little dreams like getting laid before the year-end or getting that PS3 for Christmas. Big dreams, like conquering the world, owning a franchise that is valued in the billions, going back in time just to tell Hitler he’s a faggot, deflecting a comet with your bare hands, you know, big dreams.

The way I see it is if you cant dream big now, than when? Working at Coffee Bean has allowed me to witness how the bottom feeders think; they have no big aspirations other than a promotion or time off. There is no drive, no fire, and no dream. When I first spoke out of my interest to learn Japanese, my friends thought, “Yeah, it was going to happen sooner or later.”

But my co-workers they questioned. Why? Are you going to study there? You don’t need it at Australia so why? Vexed me as fuck, I answered, ‘For fun.’ And they gave me that stupid look of, why would you do if it wouldn’t benefit you money wise in the future.

They don’t understand. At my age it isn’t about money it isn’t about the future, it is about now. My point is that, life isn’t about that career, money, the future family we want, all those are way too serious to think about. At my age, life is about doing things we want just cause we can. Like learning the guitar, doing martial arts, going for baking classes, only God knows how useful these would be in a suit-choking career in some office stuck in a cubicle.

My co-workers most of them we’re adults, maybe that’s why they think I’m silly to do things which most likely wont help my ‘future career’. Sometimes when people my age talk about marriage and shit like that I go, ‘Dude what? Guys our age should be thinking about getting laid not married!’ (That’s a quote from family guy).

Final note, the reason why I got a sudden initiative to learn Japanese is because Maaya Sakamoto is the voice actor for the character Lightning in the upcoming game Final Fantasy 13. I love her work and I want to do it just ‘cause I can.

Having this much free time must be a crime.