Things I’ve learned in 23 years and 4 months as a non-fetus human being on planet earth:
1. All men , to varying degrees, are mentally challenged.
2. All women, to varying degrees, are not sane.
3. A person cannot be like Christ and seek the American dream simultaneously.
4. The American way of life is not conducive to good physical, emotional, spiritual or mental health.
5. Parsnips are disgusting.
6. Your surroundings are a metaphor for your mind. But also, vice versa. I find it easiest to feel sane when I my room, desk and car are most uncluttered.
7. People in third world countries are happier than Americans will ever be.
8. The American People is code for “The Largest Ever Group of People in Denial About the Immense Failure That is the Way They Are Doing Life.”
9. America is a country whose money says “in God we trust” but whose people don’t live like they trust Him at all.
10. Being 23 in American in 2009 is as much of a sign as I need to be convinced that I there’s no way I will ever be able to live a conventional life. No, I’m not off to the convent. That, in its own way, would be a kind of convention. I’m in the world.
But hell if I’ll be of it.
