So You Want To Be A Rock Star?

When you are a child everyone around you tells you that you should have no limitations, that you can be whoever you want to be when you grow up. So, at a young age we start to rack our brains. At the age of five we want to be an astronaut or the President, or maybe even Super Man. Then as you hit the awkward stage of puberty, you tell everyone that you want to be a race car driver or an actor/actress so that they'll maybe stop looking at your braces and crazy hair and see that you have a potential future. By the time you reach high school you start being more realistic, thinking that maybe a lawyer or a teacher will do, and that's what you'll go to college for.

For me, I think I always knew I wanted to be a writer. There was a point in time in middle school where I was taller than every other girl in my grade, so I told myself that I could totally be a model... that was short lived.

We go to college, and we get these degrees, and we see ourselves graduating and getting amazing jobs and becoming this well educated adult with their whole life together. However, in college, the one thing they stop telling you is that you can be whatever you want to be when you graduate. It's a lot harder than they lead you on to believe, and sometimes even if you do go to school for all of those years, there is a chance that you still might not get a job in the field that you want, which is total bull shit if you ask me.

However, there is one day that you can set aside all of your broken dreams and actually become something that you aren't. Without a degree, without tears and sweat, you can be anyone you want to be and nobody can turn you down. This is the reason I love Halloween.

For one night, you can slip into an identity that you secretly have always wanted to have. You can walk out of your door dressed in a uniform, or lack there of, with full confidence knowing that for the night, you have become something out of your normal, 8-5 desk clerk.



You could dress up as a millionaire and nobody is going to point out that you actually over drew your account last week. You can dress up as a vampire and people will think that you are out to suck their blood. You could get in touch with your inner super star and be a Spice Girl, or Hugh Hefner, and nobody will point out the fact that you can't sing or you aren't capable of taking care of 1 woman, let alone ten.

If everyday was Halloween, we'd stop listening to the things that we aren't capable of doing, and without hesitation, become it.