Hi, my name is Tyler.
(awkward handshake)
Um… nice to meet you.
(looking down at feet, up at trees, back to feet)
So. Can we just text this conversation? I’m much more clever and entertaining when there are sufficiently long pauses.
(pulls out ridiculously cheap phone)
SORRY, THE CAPS LOCK IS STUCK.
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“Men are in general divided by a law of nature into two categories, inferior (ordinary), that is, so to say, material that serves only to reproduce its kind, and men who have the gift or the talent to utter a new word. “
“Young men of this generation…Demanding an immediate deed, with an unfailing desire to sacrifice everything for this deed, even life. Although, unfortunately, these young men do not understand that the sacrifice of life is, perhaps, the easiest of all sacrifices in many cases, while to sacrifice, for example, five or six years of their ebulliently youthful life to hard, difficult studies, to learning, in order to increase tenfold their strength to serve the very truth and the very deed that they loved and set out to accomplish–such sacrifice is quite often almost beyond the strength of many of them.”
-Fyodor Dostoevsky
