i have less than 13 years to get my shiz together. im not ready for the future.
Hmmm....okay, let's try this: As you approach 40, you are single, with no prospects; you have never even had a serious girlfriend. There was a one-night stand in there somewhere, which you remember with some fondness but more discomfort. You work in a soul-deadening job doing...let's see...ah, working overnights at a print shop printing the same set of labels on a heatset printer; 20,000 labels a day. The heatset printer breaks down a lot and the colors are always slightly off-registration. You live in a rented basement room in Pennsylvania sharing a house with five strangers, males, who rent the other rooms. One of them has an obvious and painful crush on you. You try to avoid him when possible. Another one works...hmmm...in a bread bakery, but in the garlic toast area, and always comes home REEKING of rancid butter and garlic. The smell lingers in the air through the house for hours, even after he takes a shower--and uses up all the hot water in the meantime. A third guy is into martial arts and is always doing poses and katanas in the living room when you try to watch the shared television.
Is that better?
