Tainted Wisdom

If you are a young man and are pondering what to do with your life, I can offer a few suggestions because I am no longer a young man, but a man on the verge of 40. I have made mistakes I hope you wont make, and am convinced that had I done a few things differently, my remaining 40 years would have been the time in which I spent all my time devoted to my singular and most important purpose: writing.

So, what were my mistakes? In a nutshell, I did not prepare for my most vital years, the years a man has from the age of 40 to 80. These years are the most vital because I am convinced that it takes most men 40 years to accumulate all the knowledge and experience they needs to be in a position to give the best of what they can give to the world. In my case, what I have to give is my writing. Perhaps it is not good writing, but it is leaps and bounds better writing than the words I could type out at age 20 or 30.

So, what is my predicament, and as a young man how can you avoid suffering the fate I am currently suffering when you are on the verge of 40? My predicament is that I am required to work for a living, and as a result, I cannot spend all of my productive hours putting the words onto paper that will change the world. I spent my youth borrowing money to go to college. In fact, I went to college and went to college, and went to college some more, all on borrowed money, student loans. Add to this the women that tricked me into marriage, spent what money I had, and then went their merry ways, and married yet other men to swindle. Mortgages, diamond rings, student loans, the plethora, the sundry expenses, the profligacy of youth has cursed me to be nothing more than a working man until social security kicks in. Granted I am a lawyer, and I am making a good wage, on the verge of 40, but being wasteful, and profligate, and easily fooled into trading my wealth for the right to enter vaginas, but only after wedlock, has cursed me to the fate of being a workingman the remainder of my days. My only hope is that I can muster the strength to proffer my words onto paper each day, but only after working 8 to 5 just so I can eat and pay the mortgage.

On the verge of 40 may seem a distance away for you, young man, but you must ask yourself whether you want to be looking back 20 years from now and wishing you had listened to my words set forth herein.

Here is what you should do: join the military or the fire department, or any other profession that offers a retirement package upon 20 years of service. Put in your 20 years. While you are working this 20 years, don’t spend any money on women, don’t get married or have children, and go to night school. Learn as much as you can. Travel the world and see all you can see. When your 20 years are up, you will have a pension you can live on without lifting a finger for the Man ever again, that is, if you don’t have women and children to support. Then, when you are on the verge of 40 and have finally gained the requisite wisdom and figured out what you want to offer the world from your mind, heart, and soul, you will be able to spend the remainder of your years, the next 40, devoted to your cause and nothing else but YOUR SINGULAR CAUSE.

Don’t get me wrong. I know you are worried about getting laid in the meantime. This is easy. Only date rich, older women and refuse to marry them. I’ll talk about this virtue at another time.

Go and do, young man. The next 20 years will be short. A blink of the eye.

That’s all.