So many times, over and over I've heard, "You can't do it that way," "You're wrong," "You didn't do it right," "That isn't how's it's done," "It can only be done this way," and a ridiculously long string of other 'You can't do it's.' Well, why the Hell not? I am sick and tired of people telling me what I can and cannot do with my work and my life.

Hey, buddy, just cause I'm not doing it YOUR way, does not make it wrong. Just like it doesn't have to be done my way to be right.

There is more than one way to skin a cat.

If all you're doing is skinning the cat, then who the hell cares how you get the skin off the damn cat in the first place? Obviously, this line of thinking cannot apply to brain surgeons or atom bomb scientists --in these cases how you skin the cat, or de-atomize the bomb, cut into someone's skull is very important and I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way to do it. But if I want to shake out my rugs on the floor before I vaccuum the floor, the by God, I am going to do it! And if I want to start a sentence with the word 'and' at the beginning I am going to! Any one who has picked up a history book should know that things and rules change.

People who adhere to these ridiculously tight routines have to realize at some point that the whole reason humans --as a race-- have evolved is because we are capable of indivdual thought and opinions and (gasp) ideas. Because someone wasn't happy with just having a candle for light, we have electricity. Because someone wanted to travel faster we have the bicycle. These things we take forgranted as stationary in our lives we once not so stationary. People laughed at the idea of the world being round. People laughed at the idea of Pangea. Everyone laughed at the idea of having computers in your home --because who would have the space for those big clunky machines? Yet, I'm sure all those on the developing team of the PC were laughing all the way to the bank, too.

I know I am not the only person out there who is sick and tired of the doubters and naysayers. If I am a dreamer, if I am wasting my time, if I am going no where with my life. Then, fuck, why do you care? Live and let die. If you are so sure that I am gong to fail, then leave me the Hell alone, let me fail, and then you can have the last word.

Until then, shut the Hell up and let me be a dreamer and let me try my own ways. I am leaving you in peace to have your own ways. Now back off.

-kln-