if i let you in, you'd just want out.

“I used to know this boy. At one point I was pretty good friends with him, we drifted apart through the high school years. Anyway, that doesn’t matter. He spent about, what, 12 years of his life in some form of education. Anyway. It was at GCSEs at our school. In his final days of his exams, he was hit by a car. Died instantly.

He worked and studied for 95% of his whole life. It’s not his fault, but he did. He studied and learned to get a “good future” and died before getting there. He is never going to see the world, he did so little to say he has been in the world for 16 years. That’s it. He’s gone. Over. I was told by one of his close friends he was saying a few days before he died: “I’ll never die. I’m going to live forever.”

And thats just it. No one does, no one lives forever. In fact, quite the opposite. Our generation is expected to die before our parents. It’s so hard to break the boundaries that society have put on us, but you have to. I know it’s hard to not be scared about the future, you think you have to work non-stop so you can live when you’re older. But fuck it. Your teenage years will be the best years of your life. So go live them. Roadtrips, making friends, fucking girls, whatever. Just go do it. Don’t waste your time now for the future, because it may never happen, you may be killed tomorrow. I’m never going to live my life in the conventional form that is birth, school, college, work, marriage, the grave. Fuck that. That is what “This Is What The Edge Of Your Seat Was Made For” is about. “Let’s not change the subject - let’s go chase the sunset, bring me the horizon,” meaning, stop putting off shit, get off the computer, and go make an unforgettable moment happen with your friends. Go get that feeling like when you’re in a different country and the air is warm and you feel so different.”

- Oliver Sykes

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