Some Were Made To Be Broken
This was a long time ago, when they had color coded ticket stubs, AND guys standing at the door to each theater to check your ticket.
We’d save our stubs, and after a while we would have all the colors, so we could “re-use” them to see a couple movies in one afternoon.
I don’t know about you, but many of my fond memories from my youth revolve around trying to “break” or “bend” the rules.
Being about to sneak around authority without getting caught is always pretty fun.
Especially when the “authority” is some kind of puffed up guy trying desperately to get people to believe in his “authority.”
Of course, we did go too far a few times. Once my buddies and I were into collecting bicycle air caps.
Those things that screw on the top of the air stem on your bicycle tire.
Once we saw this really cool motorcycle, with these really cool chrome caps on the air stems.
I reached down to “feel it,” being a kid I wanted to “touch” everything I wasn’t supposed to.
Then this big scary biker dude (at least from a kids standpoint) came out and accused me of trying to let the air of his tires.
I don’t remember exactly what I said, but I DO remember that I ran away quickly after that.
The truth is that some rules ARE meant to be broken, and some rules ARE meant to be obeyed.
One powerful skill as an adult is to know the ones that don’t really matter, and have the courage to step over the line to see what happens.
Now, I’m sure you’ve got an idea of what “rules” are REALLY ones you simply can’t break.
On the other hand, there are other “rules” that people “make up” not because they are important, but because they make the person saying the rules FEEL important.
I don’t have to tell you this, because you already you know it’s NOT your job to make others feel important.
It is your job, however, to figure out what you want, and get it.
No matter how big, how matter far out there.
Your dreams belong to you, and nobody else.
If somebody tells you that SHOULD behave in a certain way, and that would keep you from achieving your dreams, while only make THEM feel important, well, screw that!
Your job is to break as many as THOSE rules as you need to, in order to make your dreams come true.
It’s not easy. But somebody’s gotta do it.
Why not you?