What Doesn't Kill You (Will Probably Try Again Tomorrow)

People keep telling me to live life like there's no tomorrow, and tomorrow is no promise.

If that's true, do I really want to be spending every day at work or school, seeing as how it may be my last?

But, of course, I have to be responsible, and just because this tomorrow may by my last tomorrow doesn't mean that it is, and I need to be prepared for every tomorrow after that.

So what is the point to a phrase like, live life to the fullest? More like, take that chunk of time that's not already full of writing papers or meetings with teachers or reading dull, endless assignments and then applying some critical thinking question to it even though you have no idea what the question even means and are sure everyone else's answers will be more thoughtful and intellectual than yours, no matter what you write or other meaningless homework assignments that, as far as you're concerned, have nothing to do with the career you'd like to have, or even any career at all, because since when did researchers of literature ever make money just by doing that or a job that you hate but have to keep going to because there's nothing else and, believe you me, you've tried or filling the dishwasher or making sure the sink is fixed or keeping the baseboard clean or helping friends move or keeping the apartment nice because you need that deposit back or coming back to the laundromat all the time because no matter how many times you wash those darn clothes, it doesn't make any difference, and you'll never be free of cleaning clothes that should really just stop getting dirty in the first place, yeah, take that, maybe, half an hour, and party it up, really go crazy.

Oh, and when you're done, don't forget to go get groceries. 

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