Hard Decisions in Life

Some people write essays, some people write poems, some people take pictures, whatever it is, people post their content on Triond, a nice peaceful site. Triond is a very sullen website, with lots of talented artists that like to share their stuff, whether it be creative or just plain boring, Triond has it! This time, though, I would like to write an interactive piece, this piece is one that requires the reader to think, and ask themselves questions, then, coming to a conclusion, type their opinions in the comment box.

Hi, my name is Ryan. Let’s not go into depth because I tend to take this matter too seriously. What I woud like you to do is, please read this, and write something in reply to it, for me, shall we say. Please read it all, I tried to make it as interesting as possible.

So here it is, another boring summer day, living out on the farm in the middle of nowhere. I wake up, eat breakfast, and look at the newspaper (outdated) while thinking, “What shall I do today”. One thing crosses my mind. “I really like playing guitar, and write my own music, so I might try writing another song, and to relax ill go on the computer a bit”. So i play guitar and, after about an hour, find myself looking up guitar tabs on the internet. Finding nothing appealing to me, i start playing a game. After a while, it’s already lunch, so I take a break and eat, then have a shower. I get out of the shower and see, hmm it’s a nice day out, too bad I have nothing to do. So I go back onto my computer (which I made myself) and before I know it, it brings me to now. The point of my story is, I always find myself on the computer or near it playing guitar. After chores, after school, after meals. My problem is, I’m not just some kid who plays video games all the time, I write codes for websites, i can literally MAKE games from the ground up, and I do quite a bit of photo editing and random script writing, so point being, I’m not always playing games. But my problem is, it doesn’t matter what I’m doing, it’s the fact that I’m almost always on this computer! Now, to people around me, which are, sadly, boring as heck…this is a stupid thing to do, fry your brain cells on the computer all the time. But I’m always learning stuff!? How can i be frying my cells when I’m being so productive? Whether it be looking up guitar tabs, playing games, writing codes, I’m always finding myself learning stuff. When it comes to real world, it seems so lame, there is nothing going on, and my friends live to far away for me to do anything. Word goes around that I do nothing but go on this computer, and soon enough all my relatives make sick jokes about it, and always make fun of the fact that I’m always sitting at my computer. Little do they realise that If i could put my skills to the real world I could be making somewhat more than double the money they are making. No matter what it is, it always leads to insults about me and my computer, and I start to feel really sad, I think to myself, why does everything i do go unappreciated?’ I am in grade 11, and, I am looking forward to a future career in music, whether it be starting a band, or something else in music. 6 years piano lessons, and self taught guitar. But honestly, I am going through so much frustration, should I be ashamed of always being on my computer?