When I Grow Up
You’re always told as a kid that you can be whatever you wanna be when you grow up, basically encouraging murderer as a job. How do you handle a kid that wants to hurt people?
“Billy, what do YOU want to do when YOU grow up?”
“I WANNA BLOW PEOPLE UP!”
Like, it just isn’t cool. And most of these kids have unrealistic dreams, like being an astronaut, and sh*t like that. They don’t understand the hard work that goes into becoming an astronaut, they just think that when you grow up, you get to choose a card out of a hat and *BOOM*! JOB!
Let’s encourage kids to take better routes in life. I say, tell a kid the truth. Tell them what they CAN be when they grow up. And what they CAN’T be. And possibly, based on those vocational tests, take their skills and traits into consideration. Ya know?
“Well Raymond, you can’t be an airplane pilot because you only have one arm, HOWEVER, you CAN join a circus! Doesn’t that sound like fun?!”
You’re always being lied to when you’re a kid. Don’t sit too close to the TV because it will ruin your eyes. If you keep making that face it will stay like that. Drink 8 glasses of water a day. Get 8 hours of sleep. School is important. Authority is your friend. And of course, the parents saying, “We love you no matter WHAT you turn out to be.”
Then ten years down the road Billy becomes a terrorist and blows up a national art museum killing hundreds and injuring a few, and his parents are the first to decline he was their child. Stop lying to kids. They’re already f*cked up enough. Especially if they’re reading THIS blog.
M@RK
