20 Oct 2011
Quote: A World Of Buckets
I mentioned my years spent crashing on friends’ couches earlier, people taking me in because they knew my only other option was living on the street. Do you think I ever thought about how much work they had to do to provide me with a place to stay? Or how wrong it was that as an able-bodied man, I wasn’t the one providing a sofa for somebody else in need? Or that I was always taking instead of giving? No, because that’s how an adult thinks. And I wasn’t one.
You know you’re an adult, not just when you’re able to put the needs of others above your own, but when you’re able to do it without giving a single thought to what they “owe” you in return. You realize that, at some point you weren’t even aware of, you became the tap instead of the bucket. And then you look back and hate your younger self for living under the delusion that somehow a world full of buckets could function.
–John Cheese