Stupid Yellow Brick Road

So when I working last week, doing this insanely fun, but terribly scheduled job playing video games all day (and by all day, I mean literally 11 to 12 hours) (for four days consecutively), I met a lovely stranger.

Actually, he was anything but lovely, sort of annoying and and evidently jobless customer, fluttering from game stall to game stall, looking for someone to talk to.
As one by one, my fellow promoters tried to stray away from him, he eventually landed up in my game booth, and I have to commend him for skipping the small talk and jumping right to the specifics.

'So how long do you work here for?
-12 hours a day almost

'You must be getting paid so much'
- Yeah, we're getting paid fine

'Did you know, that today, if you don't want to become a lawyer or a doctor or anything that has a particularly, already-set path, you're pretty much doomed?'
-W-W-Wwwwait a minute there, Sparky! Shutyourface!

(Let's back up here a bit)
I just graduated from university, with a degree in Media and Communications specializing in Print Journalism.
That's pretty much newspaper stuff- hard and soft news.
I'm really not into either.

I love to write.
But I have dreams to become an author one day, write books which makes people cut outside stores to read. I want to click pictures with Jodi Picoult and other famous novelists and have captions such as 'Brilliant Authors Meet for Tea' or some shit like that.

But let's face it, its not easy to be an author. Like it's not easy to be anything unconventional today.
Like being a musician or painter or ...

So here he stands, Mr. Stranger in his shorts and red tee shirt and partially greasy hair, explaining to me he's just been laid off work.
'They didn't want me. I want to work in a gaming industry and software used for it, but it's not a set path, I need to pave my way and therefore it'll either happen or not. Either way I need to try harder than the next person who want's to do something like everybody else- a doctor, engineer or lawyer'.

So I stood there, terrified at the thought of not having a yellow brick road, laid in front of me. It's already been more than three months that I've graduated and I'm just sitting at home thinking about my next move.

He continued to talk about world politics, why he was visiting the country and how it was nothing people said it would be.
And then he bid us farewell.

This is why you should never talk to strangers.