Buy My Life!*

*For a year

So a couple of people have asked me, Is my idea original?  Has it ever been done before?

Well, to my knowledge, no.  I would very much like it if this was the first, ever, crowd-sourced Around the World trip!  And I think it is, or will be :)

But, one cannot rely exclusively on the kindness of strangers.  

I know this isn't the regular way of doing things.  You're meant to get a job, work hard, save money, wait forever, try to not spend that money on new tires or concert tickets, then GO.  

Yeah, I get that.  And I respect that.  And, hey!  I've even done that.  

But its really, really hard.   

And I get it.  My generation is the one that just wants to be famous, to get something for nothing.  We don't care for hard work and we want something for nothing.

But not everyone is a Kardashian.  Some of us are... well, actually, Khloe Kardashian. 

You know what I cant stop thinking about?  Not being special.  When you're a kid, everyone tells you you're special. If you're beautiful, you think you will grow up to be a model or actress or just marry rich.  When you're smart, you think you'll grow up to be a famous scientist or writer.  When you're funny, you think you'll be a comedian. 

And then nothing happens for a really long time and you think, that's OK, all those smart beautiful funny people went through the exact same thing.

And then nothing happens for a really really long time and you realise why some people are accountants and waiters.  That, in fact, you have no real talent.  That nobody thinks you're special.  And that if you want something, you have to work really hard to get it.  And that it might not be worth it. 

That maybe nothing is worth working that hard. 

And maybe you would be better off just being like everyone else. 

 

And you forget that when you were a kid, you believed in True Love and the Tooth Fairy and Santa and that when you read Robert Frost you said that you would always take the road less travelled by.   And that everyone told you to not lose your belief of the good in the world but slowly, slowly... you lost it and you don't know where.  And sometimes, you feel the pain of that loss in a place inside you that you can't name.

And you realise that this is what happens.  This is what happened to your parents, and their parents.  And this is what is happening to you.  The unstoppable train of life.

And there's no escape from the fact that you are average.  

So, guys.  Give me a break.  Give me a piece of myself that I can't get for myself.  Give me something that I don't deserve, that I haven't work for. Give it to me because I am not special, or talented. But you are.  And if there was anything in the world that would give you major karma points, it would have to be this. 

 I can't stop playing this song, and its obviously putting me in a funk:

 Cups

I've got my ticket for the long way 'round/
The one with the prettiest view/
It's got mountains, it's got rivers/
It's got sights to give you shivers/
But it sure would be prettier with you

No, just kidding.  I'm single, obviously.

You're gonna miss me when I'm gone.