An Attempt to Tip the Scales

For you.

Now: Without further delay; immediately; at once.

The generation is now. Patience is a virtue of the past. We need what we need and we need it now. What we want has somehow warped itself into what we simply cannot live without, and with every passing day, accessibility has never been so easy. 

Nor terrifying.

Here is a city where some people will work forever without any sort of glimpse of credit or recognition. Others will gain success by complete and total chance. Some will sleep in gutters. Some will live off trust funds. Some will simply live. In what might be considered the most revolutionary city in the world, careers are handed out on golden platters now, now, now, and an industry, a city, once so respected can ultimately eat itself away. Thus leaving us with an ego, lines and lines or strategically placed palm trees, a false sense of reality, and a distorted perception of measurements of time. 

The recent acceptableness impatience.

Is it necessary to have constant connection to those around you? To give unto others what they want the very moment it is expected Feeding the fire that is burning down industries and families now, now, now. 

Good intentions, bad outcomes. Bad intentions, shittier outcomes. No intentions, create your own goddamn ending. 

Without instant connection, I wonder, would you or could you ever really disappear? Can you ever truly live for the moment without breaking that moment for thoughts of another.

 Past or future, does the present even truly exist in a world that is constantly evolving towards the future?

And yet, our generation is now. It would be unfair to focus on the negatives, because isn't hope solely about concentration on the positive? Putting any glimpse of faith into what might still be good. People still care and people will always care because without this compassion, we would not exist. 

Daily, there are innumerable contributions to society from people all around the world. The now generation presents us each with the invaluable opportunity to begin our lives with each new second of each new day. To change. To create. To take a stand. To reach out. Thus, there is beauty found within the now. 

Photograph, smile, tear apart and paste together, look up, sketch, cry for what is, hope for what is not. Dream. 

And know that it is okay. 

Everything is okay. 

It is shit, but we are okay.

So let's bum around and make out for hours in stuffy parking garages with shitty skyline views. Let's smoke our cigs to the filters and cheers to the nights that last until mornings. Let's drive with our windows down and no destination in sight - walk for the sake of walking and breathe for the sake of inhalation.

 Enjoy your food. Speak your mind. Write your name in the sand and who gives a shit if the water washes it away.

To continuously evolve is only human nature, but instant answer Wikipedia bullshit is not. 

So find the answers for yourself. Experience. Take the time to research. Learn something new and take pride in the fact that you are that much better for every single second. 

Work for what you want. Get hired, get fired, and find a new goddamn job. Experience is the basis of any success. Learn. Grow. Deserve.

Viva la revolucion. What revolution? Go start one. Now.

Long live every single notch on the clock. Every second of every moment of every hour of every day.

And above all things, long live hope.

All the while remembering that we would not know hope without hopelessness. We would not know ignorance without intelligence. In the contrast, we find our strength. And we will be okay. 

We are okay. 

We are now. And while that is demanding, that is life.

Long live, live long, and enjoy, enjoy, enjoy every goddamned second.