pour me another drink, barkeep

I am really just a lost soul carrying a Jack & Coke around waiting to become something worth keeping. I have never really played the good guy, but i'm impartial to the bad guy as well. I more or less am just some twenty-something, walking around like a chicken with his head cut off wondering when this ride is going to end. Life is like being stuck on public transit, bumping into the worlds strangest people in the most god-awful scenarios.

Heroin addicts shooting up in gas station bathrooms. Random people walking into your house trying to sell you steak. Sleeping alone every night, wondering how the hell did I end up like this?

Change is inevitable, I know this, and I do embrace this, however, it chooses the damnedest times to show it's face.

Here is to drunken nights with friends, playing music on a corner making 13 bucks outside of some Redneck family reunion, skating until your legs feel like they are going to break in half, sitting on a roof smoking cigarettes and playing guitar til the sun comes up, blaring "London Calling" and still knowing every single word.

Here is to basement shows and playing your heart out to all of your friends and strangers that just happened to show up; to watching cartoons because they remind you of when you were a kid; to still collecting comicbooks even though it is looked at as nerdy.

Here is to always embracing your youth, no matter what your age. Working a steady job you don't like because it pays the bills but staying child enough to play cops and robbers in the middle of the night.

Here is to being yourself at any cost, to watching the sun rise and fall like a pendulum because we all now in our hearts that life is not permanent, it does end and you should always embrace the things you love, even if it doesn't quite work out how you would like it to right away.

I am 25 years old, and I will always love getting my hands a little messy and enjoying life to the fullest, no matter who comes and goes. I hope more of you stick around, because it's not over yet.