“The best thing in life is being free of obligation…
otherwise you lose your ability to gamble.”
-Setzer Gabbiani, Degenerate gambler, womanizer, and zepplin owner, FF6
I love that line, (not to mention who said it). I’m not a sentimental person, if you were to compare my room to any other person my age , you’d be astounded by the differences, probably the only things the same would be that both have a bed, both have dirty clothes on the floor. I don’t have any posters on my walls, no t.v., no pictures, no computer, etc. The only things I have in my room (in addition to what I mentioned above) are a desk containing a bottle of single malt Scotch (Not that I drink regulaily, but I do enjoy nice single malt now and again), and a bookself full of esoteric litrature, RPG source books, and print outs of bootlegged texts.
This has always suited me fine, I don’t spend much time in my room. But people always seem put off when they see it, one time my cousin made a joke “So, when are you moving out?”. I didn’t get it. In self reflection, my room is a suiting reflection of my life, I don’t have any community ties, I’m not close to any of my fammily members, I don’t have a job (at least durring the school year), I’m only part of orginations that have very flexible obligations, or clubs that meet infrequently. Jokes on them though, because of my, let’s say ‘detached’, life style I’ve been able to (was the only one able to) accept a position in my uni’s student exchange program! So (on condition that I can push through the paperwork in time) starting this January, I get to go to Chico state for a whole semester.
-Ciao
pretzelboy said,
November 21, 2008 at 8:42 pm
My room tends to be pretty plain as well. I have a going away picture signed by some people tapped to the wall. That’s the only thing close to a decoration that I’ve put up in a very long time. Other than that, books lying all over the place and lots and lots of paper (mostly accumulated handouts from class), my room sounds a lot like yours minus the scotch.
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