"Don't Wanna be Known as a Punk in First Class"
Well, it seems that a lot of people missed the point of my DC rant. That's probably my fault for not re-reading and editing the post after I initially got the emotion down on paper. So, I'll try to clarify.
This is one of the fundamental parts of my "personal philosophy," or whatever you want to call it. It's the same reason I take the stairs instead of the elevator. It's the same reason I stand there and hold the gas pump handle instead of pushing the little lever that will hold it for me--even when it's cold and snowing. It's the same reason my computer is about 4 years old, even though I'm a "computer geek" and, if I really wanted to, could afford to buy a really fast new one. It's the same reason I never want an $80,000 a year job in business, a big house and a BMW.
I heard that line from a PAX217 song, maybe six months ago, and it's been stuck in my head ever since. "Don't wanna be known as a punk in first class." That's the best way I can describe it. Who am I? I'm not cool, or rich or smooth. I'm not. I never have been, and I've lost that stupid middle school desire to be. I struggle with pride, but I don't have a big enough ego to actually think I deserve those things. It just doesn't fit. All those people who think they look elegant, smart, sexy, successful or whatever...don't. They look like fools. They look like they don't know who they really are. Or they know, and they're trying to cover it up.
I still don't think I've really articulated this very well, but hopefully you can figure out what I'm trying to say.
"I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind." (>>)
"I denied myself nothing my eyes desired;
I refused my heart no pleasure.
My heart took delight in all my work,
and this was the reward for all my labor.
Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done
and what I had toiled to achieve,
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;
nothing was gained under the sun." (>>)
"And I saw that all labor and all achievement spring from man's envy of his neighbor. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind." (>>)
"Better one handful with tranquillity
than two handfuls with toil
and chasing after the wind." (>>)
"By faith Moses, when he had grown up, refused to be known as the son of Pharaoh's daughter. He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a short time. He regarded disgrace for the sake of Christ as of greater value than the treasures of Egypt, because he was looking ahead to his reward." (>>)
"Up to this moment we have become the scum of the earth, the refuse of the world." (>>)
"Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus:
Who, being in very nature God,
did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,
but made himself nothing,
taking the very nature of a servant,
being made in human likeness.
And being found in appearance as a man,
he humbled himself
and became obedient to death--
even death on a cross!" (>>)
"Rip the tags off mattresses,
you'll buy more anyway.
Is the paint on that SUV
some brand new type of gray?
Believe in anything,
Vultures circling.
Open, swallow
you're so hollow." (>>)
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