Dribble.

That guy in the back is asking for a meme.

For some reason I’m on a writing role as of late. What follows is some life philosophy stuff that you can totally ignore, but it was part of my application for a scholarship. I felt like I killed the essay so I’m posting it. And sorry for the blatant Free Darko rip.

Like all incoming freshman, I have yet to figure out everything. Like most incoming freshman, I think I have figured everything out through the folly of inexperience and pluck, feelings brought on by the swelling strings of a soundtrack playing in my head as I go throughout the day. But what I believe gives me an advantage over some people my age is that I’ve been around people who were older than me and I’ve learned to shut up. I can and have gone long amounts of time while people around me talk, not because I have nothing to say; I was silent because I had things to say but I wanted the impact to be strong and powerful. Words are power. Mao Zedong thinks power flows from the barrel of a gun, and he might have set up a pretty powerful regime based on that, but when you don’t have a gun, words will do work just as fine. So if words have the impact of bullets and I am correct in my estimation that I am quiet and speak when I am most likely to make the greatest impact, then I could cause revolutions with my lips.

When people shoot guns, they don’t go out shooting deer first off. First its cans. Cheap cans you can bleed dry in five minutes through chugging. Once you shoot cans you shoot logs. From logs, maybe clay pigeons, and then you move on to the things that move and breathe because now you know the impact of a gun and the impact of that pin hitting the shell. Because in order to shoot the living you have to know what isn’t alive. If this comes across as militaristic, then I’m sorry, but again, I am going on what Mao Zedong said.

But to every Mao Zedong, there is a Karl Marx, to every Miles Davis a Charlie Parker.  There has to be somebody, whether you’re talking or shooting or playing, to slap you on the back of the head and say, “What are you doing?” I personally don’t have that. My Dad is the closest thing but he can’t always be around me. So now I have to go on what I’ve learned, and like I said above, I am like most freshmen and don’t know everything even though I believe I do.  So what I have taken to this point to say is that I don’t mind being slapped on the back of the head or if I have someone’s whose noggin I need to knock doing the knocking. Leadership comes from action. You can talk all you want but it’s the people down in the trenches with the ability to do the work but also have that quality and save up their words that one day can lead. So I’ll fulfill this in my life through being a student or a teacher or whatever it is that is needed. That’s what leadership is: doing what needs to be done.

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