YUKON HO!

 The Yukon Song

My tiger friend has got a sled,
And I have packed a snack.
We’re all set for the trip ahead.
We’re never coming back!
We’re abandoning this life we’ve led!
So long, Mom and Pop!
We’re sick of doing what you’ve said,
And now it’s going to stop!

We’re going where it snows all year,
Where life can have real meaning.
A place where we won’t have to hear,
“Your room could stand some cleaning.”

The Yukon is the place for us!
That’s where we want to live.
Up there we’ll get to yell and cuss,
And act real primitive.

We’ll never have to go to school,
Forced into submission,
By monstrus, crabby, teachers who’ll
Make us learn addition.

We’ll never have to clean a plate,
Of veggie glops and goos.
Messily we’ll masticate,
Using any fork we choose!

The timber wolves will be our friends.
We’ll stay up late and howl,
At the moon, till nighttime ends,
Before going on the prowl.

Oh, what a life! We cannot wait,
To be in that artic land,
Where we’ll be masters of our fate,
And lead a life that’s grand!

No more of parental rules!
We’re heading for the snow!
Good riddance to those grown up ghouls!
We’re leaving! Yukon Ho!

Unless you wanna get wet, water balloons are never a good idea.

I'm pretty sure everyone has something they can look back to and think exactly this. We've all made decisions that we regret in the end. We're human that way.

Expectation is the root of all disappointment.

Don't you just hate it when you get all excited but in the end you get really disappointed? Yeah, that's why sometimes it's better not to expect.

Everyone needs a swift kick in the butt every now and then.

"People will pay for what they want, but not for what they need."

-Bill Watterson

If you could wish for anything

“He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.” 

-Socrates

It has long been my belief that only the simplest things in life are able to make us truly happy. Have any of you guys ever tried lying down on a big sunny field? I have, and it's great.

"You've taught me nothing except how to cynically manipulate the system."

"A child educated only at school is an uneducated child."

- George Santayana

This strip pretty much sums up the current state of today's education systems. A lot of the stuff you're asked to learn in the classroom don't really prepare you for anything worthwhile. Never limit yourself only to what is being taught to you inside the confines of the school walls because the more important stuff are learned outside of the classroom. Besides, there's more to life than getting good grades. 

After all, how often do we get a second chance?

Death twitches my ear. "Live", he says. "I am coming."

-Virgil

We will never truly understand life and the things we live through, and at the end of the day we always feel like we don't have enough time. Our days are numbered, and we know that, but we are oftentimes too occupied and too concerned with life's many stressful and monotonous trials that we tend to overlook the things that actually matter. Appreciate life. Sure it has got a lot of lows, but perhaps without these lows, the highs could never really be reached. As the great Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius once said, "Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them."
With that said, everything ends, but the end need not be so bad. There is as much beauty in death as there is in life, we just have to learn to see it. Death is a transition into a new phase of being. Like a dying bird waiting to stiffen and decay on the ground, death is as much a beginning as it is an end, as well as a release into the unknown beyond.