on youth wasted...yeah!

listening to Finch - What is it to burn
"Today's on fire,
The sky is bleeding above me,
And I am blistered,
I walk these lines of blasphemy,
Every day,
And still...
Like a bad star,
I'm falling faster down to her,
She's the only one who knows,
what it is to burn."

"Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life."- Herbert Henry Asquith

"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children." - George Bernard Shaw

--some of the quotes that made me think I've wasted youth on a lot of nonsensical things, that I should've done something much much greater and with value. It makes me recall a lot of things; that I should've gotten drunk less, smoked less; that I should've studied more and wondered less; that I shouldn't have felt crazy madly in love and believed in all that too early; that I should've spent all the time I've been procrastinating on doing something a little less from what adults should be doing.

I'm in my twenty-ones and I'm still wasting what's left of my youth. For me, youth not wasted is not youth at all. The youth, the illusion of old men, is overrated. Youth is the time where youth makes mistakes, get hurt, and learn. What comes after is the time where they make something of what they've learned and if it falls short then blame it on a youth not wasted well.

I'll never exchange my crazy role in the stage for a stand on a battlefield that will always be there waiting for me. I'm still wasting, making mistakes, and expecting a lot more painful experiences, but I still will be learning.

"It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded." - W. Somerset Maugham