Idealist; one guided by ideals;

“Heard about the guy who fell off a skyscraper?
On his way down past each floor,
He kept saying to reassure himself:
So far so good… so far so good… so far so good.
How you fall doesn’t matter.
It’s how you land!”

The best years of my life are behind me. That kind of fatalism is something that you would expect to hear from a 30-something management executive during a “difficult breakup” involving the custodial loss of the family cat. However its something that I feel like I might almost be ready to say. Crack open a bottle of red wine, bang on some Smiths, give me a bunch of 30-something friends that will sympathize (though only slightly) with my existential crisis, and I’ll feel right at home … in five years. (more…)