me myself and I

[the Puck]

Since I'm relatively new here, I guess I'll introduce myself and let you know how I dude to keep from everyday's problems
my real name isn't the Puck (you guessed I guess) it's Clement, but I don't like it anyway. so I tell people to call me the puck.
I'm a 19yo art student, at least I was last year.
at some point I decided to just not go to any lessons and live life as a big vacation, it maybe were the 10 most awesome months of my life.
just walking around, playing guitar, and listening to psychedelic music, while enjoying every sun beam and every raindrops..
unless The Dude, I don't play bowling often, I don't drink White russians, and I don't smoke. But I've found my way of life: takin' it easy!
this year I decided to retry my art studies, and I guess it was the worst idea ever... so after a few months realising I really couldn't share anyone's opinion, and everybody saying I should move my ass to pass, I just decided to give it up and dude out this situation. so here am I travelling through my own flow, forgeting any time notions and taking it easy as it's my way to feel good..
I guess most of it is said, if somebody else wants to share it's dude history..

[ZoeAbides]

I'm not like the Stranger, and I'm not about to tell someone what to do with their life.  Hell, I'm still tryin' to figure out this whole durn human comedy for myself.  I would like to offer a little piece of advice, at least from how I understand it.

Taking 'er easy is not about throwing everything away and going on an endless vacation.  That's a sure-fire way to find yourself in the bar's maw further on down the road.  Or, in the parlance of our times, how to find yourself as Donny in a Folger's can.  Taking 'er easy and abiding, (at least from my perspective) is about rolling with life's punches.  Not striving so hard for material successes.  Watching the rat race from the sidelines rather than jockeying for position in the middle of it.  Abiding the gutters AND the strikes, and trying not to attach to the outcome of the roll.  Once you've rolled you have no control where that ball is going to end up, so mark it 8, or mark it 0, just don't get too hung up on the outcome.  But it's your roll, so you still have to let the ball fly.

Maybe you're not supposed to do college right now, maybe your destiny is elsewhere.  And you're young.  Enjoy the fuck out of this time in your life, because it only comes once.  But the rest of your life comes after this, and if you want to survive past 25, don't be the squirrel who gets to winter without his nuts.  True, sometimes you eat the bar and sometimes, well the bar eats you, and there's not a lot we can do about it.  But sometimes, just sometimes, if we can look far enough down the path, we can avoid the bar altogether.

Something I wish I knew when I was 19 and dropping out of college.  Theatre wasn't for me.  But I wish I was a bit more diligent trying to find out what was for me, rather than struggling almost 20 years later just to survive.

But all this is just, like, my opinion man.