12- Sentence Short Story

Nathan and I we’re obsessed, we had the band’s shirts, we had the band’s albums, we knew the names, we knew everything there was to know. We had done everything, except seem them perform live. Now that their tour was destined for The Village, a small venue in Little Rock, it was our time to strike. Then we had to get by our authoritative figure, who we couldn’t seem to get past by any means, bribe past, argue past, whine past, or fight past. So we would just have to sneak past. Hardly easy. We told him we were at a friends house and we drove to little rock and called him often and got there and back fast and did so in a hurry. Many shows are good, but this one was grand. Blown were our minds. Was it worth the risk? The risk of anger, of disappointment, of arguing, of punishment? The spontaneous jams, unpredictable covers, cultured crowd,and intense environment made this concert completely worth any risk.

Doomed for Mediocrity

It seems that, over time, we, Americans, all turn out to become the same person. We, the average american schoolboy or girl, seem to slip down the ever-entrenching, ever-engulfing, and ever-slippery slope down to mediocrity. Society shoves us up the latter of, as they call it, "success" while in truth it's a latter of sameness and monotony, we doom ourselves by trying to please our family and friends.

As long as I can remember I've been told to get good grades, then I got told to take the ACT to swipe at scholarships, go to college, marry, and tell your kids to do the same. This is the latter that we all have seen plenty of times before, but what is at the top? A Toyota Camry? An average house? Generic Wal-Mart groceries? This is the life that we all end up with but is it the life that we want? Do we wanna put our feet in the exact footprints of our parents and theirs before them? We cannot take advice from this song as it claims, "I find sometimes its easy to be my self, sometimes I find its better to be somebody else". It is not better to be somebody else. Thats how we all end up the same, by trying to be each other.

The only way to escape mediocrity is to unmistakably be our own selves, without taking influence from others, and to make our lives truly our own.

If you wanna never marry, work at McDonalds, and try to become a famous musician, for the rest of your life do it. Who cares if society says your a loser you'll end up living more of an exciting free life then any of us.