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- = F.U.C.K. - Fucked Up College Kids - Born Jan. 24th, 1993 - F.U.C.K. =
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- Purpose
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- I have no snappy intro, so pardon my lack of a professionally written
- essay.
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- Lately, having been on the F.U.C.K mailing list for a little while, it
- seemed to me that the files F.U.C.K once had has been reduced to angst
- driven generation x'ers whining about how bad their life is, usually
- dealing with depression, chemical or not, first and foremost. That's
- what my shallowest thought was at first, at least, and I rebuked
- myself for thinking that.
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- Everyone gets depressed, sure, and I'm not one to argue. I've got
- depression, yes, chemical, and in the last year it's become a large
- chunk of my life. But in the past few years, I've also gotten to be
- close friends with many people who's depression far surpasses mine.
- To me, my depression seems to be small mood swings (although I'm not
- manic), while they truly seem to be on the brink of killing
- themselves at a moment. Most everything about yourself, you'll find,
- can easily be dwarfed by someone else, somewhere else.
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- Dragging someone back from the pits of suicide can take quite a toll,
- and it's an experience that I've re-lived a few times, that I care
- not to repeat. Saving someone's life is not the glory the movies
- make it to be, not the beauty that the books say it is. Keeping
- someone alive was one of the most difficult things I'd ever attempted
- to do, and even then, the very concept was thrust upon me suddenly.
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- And this is what I realized, among all these emotional shards, and
- after wading through the bullshit about myself. You let someone into
- your life, and you care for them, and then whatever deity you happen
- to worship takes this person in your life and threatens to have them
- leave forever. Right then, you find that you'll do something at all
- costs to keep them with you.
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- "I'm alive, I'm alone, but I never wanted to be either of those."
- -Chemical Brothers
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- Many of you out there reading this have sat in a room for days,
- dark, silent, brooding upon whatever went wrong in your life.
- More often than not, you're by yourself. No one is going to sit
- in a room and brood with you, for days, with no food, no light,
- no words. So you don't want to live. Too bad. You're alive.
- Now, the secondary things take effect. You're alive, yes, and let's
- say that you don't have the guts to take your own life; to just
- flush it all away in a tidalwave of pills or with a few delicate
- arcs of a razor. How are you going to live?
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- Do you want to live alone?
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- When I asked myself that question, my mind, of course, threw
- myself back into the past where many, many people I've let
- close to me had hurt me, scarred me in ways that still affect me.
- "Of course", I had decided. "Alone sounds beautiful at times."
- It hasn't been all bad experiences, however. Think down your
- past, or present, perhaps. There's been a person who, at one time,
- gave a damn about you, and possibly still does. Human companionship
- is something that's kept me alive a few times. It's time to ask
- yourself why you're not dead yet, but you want to die.
- Well.
- So.
- You're still alive.
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- Unconsciously, you're living for something, whether you like it or
- not. Something is making you get up every day, and making you walk
- past the loaded .44 that you have in your dresser drawer, and making
- you pass by the large steak knife that has had no sole purpose in your
- kitchen otherwise. What is it? In most cases, it's human
- companionship. Perhaps you live for the injection of the needle into
- you, every morning. Perhaps it's for the sex you can get with just
- a question. Something is keeping you alive.
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- Sometimes it's never a fun thing to question who you are, to dig
- deep and analyze what makes you a person, but it's apparent from past
- issues that many of you already know who you are, and that you're not
- afraid to dwell deep into yourself when the moment calls for it.
- So. Analyze what keeps you alive. It's something. Once you can label
- what it is, keep that thought. Kindle it, keep it close to you and
- shield it from any possible damage. Because if you lose that, then you
- lose everything. Literally. All of it.
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- Maybe the bleakness of death hasn't exactly looked you into the
- face yet, or for some of you, maybe you awake finding death looking
- at you. Either way, you're either foreign or familiar with it. Do you
- fear it? I do. I believe there's nothing after death. No pretty
- afterlife, sorry, no bright lights and angels. So I've made up my
- mind that if I want to be happy, I'm going to go out and make myself
- happy. I'm not about to sit on my ass and wait for a clown to walk
- through my door and start tying balloon animals in front of my
- face, while I sit, amused. Those sorts of things really don't happen.
- I promise. And sometimes, I find that one person is the only thing
- that makes me want to live. The fact that I have someone. At all.
- And maybe I don't know what true happiness is. Everyone has a
- different definition, but some people are fooling themselves while they
- drown in their own pool of denial that they've made for themselves to
- escape their reality, and to avoid the fact that there's still options
- open.
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- So, are you sitting in front of your monitor, thinking of
- ways to die? Ways to get laid? Ways to be loved? Ways to have sex?
- Ways to get high? Ways to avoid someone? Ways to confront someone?
- Ways to spend the rest of your existence?
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- Whatever makes you "happy".
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- flood
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