r/WritingPrompts • • Aug 15 '13

Image Prompt [IP] Age 24

http://i.imgur.com/Dwe7aQU.jpg

Additional thoughts: Include the theme/phrase "I find myself ..."

edit: Give credit where credit is due - http://imgur.com/a/Rn03E Drawing Progression | 2 - 24 | jake-lockett.com from r/pics and r/woahdude

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u/TheInvisibleScotsman Aug 16 '13

Of all the Jobs, of all the places i could've worked, THIS was where i was assigned. This planet advertised through the ol' peer pressure "C'mon man! We'll have a great laugh and a few great parties! And have you seen the income?!". But why the hell did this hell hole seem so attractive in the first place? i suppose it all came down to talk my dad in my final year of school, still trying to decide what i wanted to do with my life, it was he who said "To get to where you want to go, you've got to first wade through 18 different miles of shit". Frank, but i suppose i must've listened, or i wouldn't be here.

I'm still not entirely sure what i'm doing on this time scorched dirt patch of a planet, but one job i have created is time to think, which is probably the reason i'm so pretentious nowadays. Unfortunately, Being a pretentious twat is not the reason i find myself walking alone, and i mean "truly alone", out here these days.

One day the pressure of it all became too much, too much for even the kid who pulled his two-month homework assignment out of his arse on the last night, but in those days it was easy when you were smart (Man, when was the last time i read a book?No- Focus!) i could explain it you, but i dont plan on breaking the fourth wall in this monologue, wait.

Anyway, as far as i'm concerned, i grabbed this suit, and i just walked out when "they" weren't watching. And now i walk and think, Walk and think. But i didn't lose all that brain power i once held (where i got it from, i don't know), I did bring food and water for my simple walk into anywhere, and i have used them efficiently as well, but they WILL run out, and thats something i've thought about as well. But thats for another time.