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my mom got me this! seriously, she is the BEST.

you never, EVER have to burn out. you could be like 500 years old and if you’re still in love with what you do, you never have to act old, you never have to compromise, you never have to be mediocre, you never have to slow down. have you ever met that person who retires when they’re twenty-four years old? they’re TWENTY-FOUR and they get all conservative and dismissive and they don’t want to see anything, they don’t want to know anything new, they get in their little rut and they act like little old men - and they haven’t even done anything yet! and then you meet some wild sixty-five year old bohemian who’s into all this crazy stuff - “let’s go listen to this! let’s go see that!” - and they WEAR YOU OUT. you’re twenty years younger than them and they make you tired because they have so much energy - “what are you doing sleeping?!? come on, the sun’s coming up! let’s go watch!” and you’re like “…get the **** away from me!”

i want to be one of those people.

- henry rollins