Winning the game of life...

You ever play the board game "Life"? How do you actually win? I remember playing that shit for hours and getting nowhere even thought I completed the seeming mundane (but essential to the "American Dream" that society and marketers demand) task of getting married, going to college, having kids, and buying the most expensive house you can find. As a child playing the game, I did those things in "Life" and wondered "what's the point"? Today, I'm doing these things in real life and wondering "what's the point"? Life isn't about winning or going through it in a cookie cutter fashion; its blazing a new trail and touching the lives of people you care about.

An old dude school once told me life isn't about winning and being better than everyone else because "as long as you ain't losing your life, you ain't losing".

I remember getting yelled at by an ex girlfriend because I never wanted to get married. I vividly remember her saying "That's no way to live life". Even going so far to suggest that without her, I couldn't be an attorney or a politician. I bring that up to say that I will continue to go through life with reckless abandon and my back towards the winds. You gotta do what you want for you. In the end, all you have is what you make out of life so why live restricted and confined to what others want.

Which is why I'll be an organizer until I feel like finishing it. Law school isn't the end all goal. I'll live and do what I want because I feel its good and needed, not because I'm working for a title.

Soooo, speaking of organizing: that "public hearing" I got invited to was actually a Michigan House of Representatives hearing on changing the Public Defender system. I guess I need to do a better job of reading these emails I get. Too bad the ACLU effed me on the order of the event. The men and women I brought down from the soup kitchen got bored (irritated) after a bit and wanted to leave before they could even testify. AND I BOUGHT THEM ALL LUNCH!! Only positive from the situation is that I met a cute lady-organizer (lol @ lady organizer) there, so we'll probably get lunch and discuss grassroots responses to poverty and homelessness :)

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