Hello World!
’sup world? Welcome to WastelandAmerica. I’ll be updating this blog every once and a while, figure once every two weeks. Don’t hold me to it though because I’m just a college kid and my free time’s available sporadically. But yeah, enjoy! Post comments, let me know what you think.
So, what’s this blog about? This blog’s about my simultaneous fascination and discontent with America’s culture. It started at the end of my senior year of high school back in 2007. I was just graduating. As much praise as I got for getting accepted to a good college and getting out with good grades, I didn’t feel like I accomplished anything. When I looked back on my high school days it was clear that I hadn’t earned any credit to my name. I zoned out through all my classes and all my work, I spent the weekends in a hedonistic stupor, drowned in sloth behind a computer screen…if anything, the best way to measure my worth was to count the numbers of weeks I did doing nothing at all! I didn’t graduate from high school; I slept my way through it. I was asleep at the wheel of my own life. I was letting it happen without me.
I got angry. I got angry at myself for letting four years of fantastic opportunities go to waste. This was the legendary high school experience everyone talks about! This was where the Breakfast Club was supposed to happen! I used to dream about this place when I was in 8th grade! I used to think that it was where my real life would begin! Instead, I fell asleep. But I woke up, and I got angry.
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