Gabriel, The Environmental Philosopher

Hey.
Another crossroads - too many choices.

I've always loved nature. When I was younger, I was crafting bows, starting fires, whittling wood to make spears and building shelters. I was so happy because there was just so much stuff to do in the wild. From chasing chipmunks to whale watching, I was a serious lover of just about everything in the natural, physical world except maybe mosquitoes (I still think they should be wiped off the earth, just like politicians).

Then one day, I discovered the internet, and I thought to myself "Gee, why bother wasting energy and moving my ugly butt around to see stuff when I can do it just by pushing a few buttons". Thus began my teenage legacy of blogging, playing video games and meeting people online - and I wholly forgot about the world that was out there. I forgot how awesome the feeling of building your own shelter and spending the night under the stars was.
I traded my environmental soul for a technological body. Well, it was fun for a while, and I sure did rack up a ton of gold in World of Warcraft, and a ton of kills in Halo.

But what will that accomplish? Sure, I could (and still want to) make a career playing video games and conquering the video game world with my insane reflexes, but there are still around 137 species of animals, plants and fungi going extinct every single day on planet Earth.

Ideally, I'd save the planet by day and play video games with a real team at night, but I'd have to be pretty amazing to pull that off. Well, I am amazing, aren't I? You're all amazing too, especially all you students grinding yourselves through university just to get a paper so you can get a job.

Well, I want something more from my time on Earth, however long or short it may be. I don't want to "live fast and die young", like MGMT sings in "Time to Pretend", killing myself with drugs, alcohol and cheap music.

So as of today, I've decided that want I want to be when I "grow up" is an environmental philosopher, because that still leaves a whole lot of options as to what I would truly do in life. A marine biologist, why not? It's just, I can't tolerate all the stupid ridiculous wastes of time I'd have to go through at university just to be able to formally study animals in the oceans. All the money I have to spend, all the energy I have to give to all these big boxes that teach you stuff just so I can do what I want. Oh, right, I have poor science marks. Boohoohoo.

It's going to be ridiculously difficult to actually somehow make something amazing with my academy of thought, The Illustrious University, and still stay true to my beliefs about how people and especially, how I should live life.

You teach me, I teach you. It's as simple as that. I'm sick of having to collect money to do fun things. I'm sick of having to buy my drinks before 11:30 because it's half-price till then.
Why can't you and I do what we want if we don't bring harm to others?
Why can't we live somewhere without borders and without policemen  and lawmakers saying "no, you can't do that"? Do I really have to move to a different planet or something?

I'm too much of a scaredy-cat to pull an Into the Wild, but really, that seems like an excellent solution to my plight. I just can't do it alone.

Till my dreams come true...
... I really do need a part-time job.
To pay for school, you know.

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21 year lifestyle

I might go party downtown tonight. It's not usually my style to do what a lot of other 21 year olds do (mainly, get drunk and party hard), preferring nighttime nocturnal wanders to the excitement of dubstep electronic shows, but hell, I might as well experience some culture at my age.

A bunch of old time acquaintances from primary school are DJs and MCs, and so that's why I'm making an exception to see them tonight. It'll probably be a fun time. And I actually kinda dig their music, even though I've always been pretty partial to trance music as my exclusive source for electronic mind-altering wavelengths.

It's kind of repetitive and a little too... produced for my general tastes, but it's catchy.

Ya dig?

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Les enfants arc-en-ciel

There's a lot of suffering in the world, and I'm pretty emotional about it sometimes. If I get hurt emotionally (rarely am I physically hurt), I really feel it and shut down.

It's not fair. We know this - we know it isn't fair that people with money and business degrees get to call all the shots. What gives them the right to tell what people what to do? Maybe they have a social status that elevates them above others.

I've dreamt of a better world. I'm pretty sure it's on Earth, but it might not be. Actually, I dream of many other planets other than Earth.

Why are the planets there? When I was younger, I imagined different kinds of planets with different games and passions for different kinds of people. Happy planets. Sadness is allowed too, but it always comes back to happiness.

This whole idea that everyone needs to "unite" doesn't make very much sense to me - there's too many people in the world, too many differing views and we can't all get along the time... can we?

The power-hungry monster corporate machines that eat up the fabric of our earthly existence haunt me sometimes, but I do my best not to feed the monster. If you're born in Canada, you're practically born addicted to consumption and it's up to you to break free from the addiction because the machine just doesn't care.

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I spoke to Lyra today, the girl of my dreams. I mean, it's hard to prove to you and all, but it doesn't really matter because she's real to me. And she told me that everything's going to be okay. Funny how Laura and Lyra sound awfully similar. Maybe I've been right all along, and dreams really do come true.

And my current dream is for the rainbow children who feel lost, confused and imprisoned by the evil that may or may not surround them to break free and finally spread peace and love across the earth, instead of hatred and greed.

It's going to happen. Quite possibly this year. I'll be ready - just find your inner sense of wisdom and love, your connection to the divine, and you might just be ready too.

P.S. If you're curious, I've officially launched my university, named "Academia Illustrae" for "Illustrious University". You can find it here.

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