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Yes I want to be creative, I really want to make my mark, I need to leave my indent like the bite of a great white shark. I'm sick not being noticed, fed up with going unseen, just one more of all of those who never, ever have been. There must be more to my being here, the reason I breathe and think, it can't all be down to waiting for the next time we have a drink. No this life should not be wasted, you only get one shot, and you should use oh so carefully, the ammunition that you've got. I know that when I was young I had a natural bent, for creating things artistically, but that would not pay the rent. So I did what I did not want to do and joined the rats at play, and jumped on to their treadmill for eight hours every day. And now so many years have passed, and my treading carries on, but I've never found my Shangri La and soon I will be gone. Without having felt the joy of making the life for which I yearned, too late to take advantage of a lesson cruelly learned. So be brave and strong you youngsters if you're nurturing a skill, don't let the pressure to pay the rent drive you on to that mill, open up your mind, and open wide your eyes, develop those talents, and reach for the skies, soar like an eagle, and find your own way, and don't eat the crumbs from the trap they call pay.
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