Is there a problem with a 30 year old man singing Rihanna’s “Rude Boy” while walking around a college campus? I don’t think so, but then again I do a lot of shit that others tend to think of as strange or creepy, especially when it comes to being a full-time student at 30.
It’s not that my younger schoolmates are not strange in their own ways, it’s just that I’m beyond the age of care. I’m comfortable with who I am now as a dude and I don’t feel the need to hide that. I remember in high school I had a new personality every year. I went from little thug (hilarious), to stoner, to clown before settling on dude. Even in the military I changed my personality a lot. I went through a hardcore military man faze which lead to a Southern Republican faze (weird times) before coming around again to dude. Good thing I didn’t go for bro because I’d be stuck wearing Ed Hardy crap these days, and that shit is FUBAR.
In the end I don’t mean to pick on my young scholars and future noblemen, it’s just that a lot of them are still trying to figure out who they are and what their roll is going to be in the world. Where as I’m past that point and sometimes the small age gap seems rather large.
I leave you with my favorite dialogue from The Wire:
Moreland: We all got our rolls to play.
Freamon: And what’s yours?
Moreland:I’m just a humble motherfucker with a big-ass dick.
Freamon: You give yourself too much credit.
Moreland: Okay then. I ain’t that humble.
