Changing Stars

Current Mood: Ponderous
Current Tunes: ‘Story About a Man With a Bad Heart’ by Emery

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Society has rules, expectations and demands that attempt to constrain a person into very particular molds. Mind your P’s and Q’s, don’t make waves, sit down and shut up. They also never really get around to making contingency plans for when the person resists the change. Instead of urging and coaxing them into compliance, they are pushed, forced and trimmed into malleability.

That person will never be the same again, and society is happy for one more day.

Sometimes the trimming doesn’t work, and sometimes the unwilling victim fights back. I believe in fighting back, and I believe in dulling the shears and shattering the molds.

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Changing Stars originally started a while back, hosting my very first forays into the blogger’s world. In time, I grew disinterested and the blog was abandoned, my writings and musings left to be archived. Even with the blog itself abandoned, however, I never truly gave up the focus of my ponderings and the concepts behind it.

The original idea for the title ‘Changing Stars’ was greatly inspired from the Hollywood film, A Knight’s Tale. In it, Heath Ledger plays a peasant’s son by the name of William Thatcher with big dreams of becoming a knight. One particular scene ends up with a young Will Thatcher watching a tournament with his father, saying that one day he’d like to be one of them in the ring. A man nearby in the stocks laughs at the boy, stating that ‘You might as well change the stars.’

Will’s father told the boy that yes, it is possible to change your stars, and in the course of the movie he proves rather successful in doing so. That was a Hollywood movie, a fiction and a fantasy, yet I believe the same to be true in reality as well. I believe in forcing those stars into whatever alignment you decide you want them to be.

Current trends in our government’s educational system leave much to be desired for the students caught up in the mix. Plans and pathways are laid out at every turn, shuffling students towards colleges and their predestined molds with all the ingenuity inspired by a herd of cattle. Teachers and counselors both tell you constantly that if you don’t go to college, you’re not going to have a fully developed life. Myself, I don’t believe in college, not right out of high school. A young student has absolutely NO idea what they’re really going to do with their life, so why waste the money and time on useless or quickly-changed majors?

This newly reincarnated study of life’s ailments is meant to be a chronicle of my own journeys through an alternate path of life. I’m a high school student faced with the demands of society and I’ve decided that I don’t want the same things as everyone else seems to want for me. I want the satisfaction of creating my own original life, filled with the interesting things that I’ve done and not wasted in a classroom or at home with books upon books.

Scratch that, I want to be at home with books and books… But I want them to be MY books, something that I’VE created. Not a textbook filled with doctrines and standards for me to live up to. There is absolutely nothing I want more than to look back at my life from old age and go, ‘Damn, those were some good times.’

I want to leave a legacy. I want to be remembered for what I did and what I created to pass on to further generations. Who I am can be easily forgotten, never mind the fact that I don’t leave a very remarkable impression in person, but rather that I’m still going to pass away one day. My mark on the world will carry on for me.

I want to have a future worth living.