Sigh.

Life is not so good today.

Fish in the sea.

The title makes this post sound like it’s about the cliche analogy about getting dumped by a girl, then getting consoled by someone telling you that there are more aquatic organisms in the wide ocean of life. It’s not though, but I thought up an addendum to this metaphor this weekend while in Santa Cruz.

hee hee

I love to ride my bicycleeee

Let me introduce you to a sad story. Originally I was gonna say “one of the saddest stories you’ll ever hear”, but my older more ‘mature’ friends are teaching me not to be so extreme. It’s not that sad, but it definitely is a bummer for me so BEAR WITH IT. Okay, it’s more of a tale of sadness, lost love and happiness, but the happiness part is yet to be seen so let’s just keep it at “sad story”.

Being the youngest in a group.

With my new small group at GRX, I am the youngest by at least a year. The average age in there is like 25 or 26 (I think)… so that pretty much qualifies me as the baby. With it come good and bad things, but mainly perks! Here they are in a numerical fashion.

Hi I like music tho.

1. I can act retarded. When you’re the oldest, you’re counted on for sage advice, calm focus in the face of present danger, and always being the slowest to speak (“wait… what does elder wang have to say? Let’s consult the runes, and if we don’t like what it says we’ll ask him thx”). The youngest, on the other hand, can react to news in whatever fashion they want, say ridiculously funny and possibly-offensive things that come to mind and fall asleep in SG (ok I don’t do this one… ), and all will end well because your stupidity is attributed to youth.
2. People have low expectations, so surprising them with random spurts of maturity or insight happens pretty readily. For the times that I don’t feel like acting like a monkey (which is a lot), I can say something that I have been thinking about, and people will think I’m really smart. I actually dont know if anyone in my SG thinks I’m smart in any measure, but this is my dream, my post, and my blog so I’ll write as I see fit.
3. It’s easy to school old creaky folk in basketball. Hee hee.
4. You don’t have to pay for things!! Even though my SG is starting to lose some jobs… my heart goes out to them.

Actually… let’s go over some lame things about being the youngest too.