Anders Flagstad

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Day Drinking at the Mall, Book 2 The Water (Firewater Boy, #2) (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

Rabe Schuyler Johnson, a (young) man known by MANY NAMES, some of them even repeatable in polite company, was not enjoying being KIDNAPPED, no matter how much fun the kidnappers tried to make it out to be, yes, whether by train, plane, bus or runaway wheelchair, being kidnapped came down to the same, boring thing - you had to do what the KIDNAPPERS wanted and not what YOU wanted and that was a BIG HONKING MAJOR problem for The Rabester - losing your precious freedom was a life-changing event folks, and Rabe hadn't asked to have his life changed, thank you very much, he liked his life just the way it was, with him in the driver's seat, (well mostly) and the car going in the direction he wanted (well, some of the time), and his hands on the steering wheel (well, sometimes his hands were on the steering-wheel-of-his-very-own-life, right? - shoot! - at least a few minutes each day, huh? c'mon!), well.. anyways... them kidnappers of his DID NOT seem to understand the basic insupportability and the even more basic contradiction of being kidnapped when you are a Son of Freedom (and had a personal motto/mantra to prove it - It's All About Freedom, Baby!) - and the fact that they also seemed to be Ancient Greek Gods DID NOT seem to ameliorate factors to any extent on top of that, and when you added sarcastic, judge-y mooses, flash-mob Bollywood spectacles on the streets of major European capitals, sadistic militarily crazed bodybuilder flight attendants and bus drivers who speak in Zen riddles once minute and diss you (accurately) the next, well... when you add all that to the mix, the mix gets interesting, in a painful, sob-inducing sort of way, so, come on down and follow 'Ole Rabe here as Rabelicious attempts to navigate said dire straits and even attempts to enjoy them straits some too.

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Anders lives as does Thoreau's mass of men, a life of quiet desperation - sometimes less quiet, sometimes less desperate, but a life nonetheless. That's what you have to remind yourself, when you least believe it, that you are, actually, living your life, and that it is quite the accomplishment, in and of itself, and that you should give yourself a pat on the back occasionally for doing it as well as you do, for as long as you have.
There are many who never will make it as far as you've gone, and none who have lived what you have lived, so every once in a while, remember, it's no sin to celebrate yourself, and give the desperation a rest. It will always be there. You can pick it up and shoulder it anytime you want and start walking again. Setting it down doesn't mean you're getting soft. It just means you're setting it down. Try it, you'll see.
But maybe, one time, at a point of self-celebration, you'll put the desperation down, party, pick yourself up afterwards and start walking and realize you have more energy and more (to use a four letter word) hope - that you're walking with a spring in your step and you won't know why and you don't want to know why. It won't even dawn on you that you've left something behind, that you lost something you thought you were going to have to lug behind you for the rest of your life yes, your desperation. You won't be desperate and it will feel strange until you remember where you set your desperation down - and you go to retrieve it - but, with any luck you won't remember and never will and from that point onwards, or at least for a while, without your desperation, you'll no longer be one of the mass of men, you'll just be you, yourself, a woman or a man who is alive, in the universe and walking about, here and there. And that's all
That, at least, is the goal of Anders. Living in the first, frantically social and riotously connected decades of the 21st century, where the desperation flows as easily as the texting and maybe even easier, and is almost as unstoppable. Almost.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anders Flagstad
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798230432890
• Artikelnr.: 73471936