Keep your eyes on the road and your hands upon the wheel

I remember on one of my last couple days at my last Starbucks there was this customer who I guess is a regular who often comes with his dog. He was wearing a Cal sweater and I commented that Berkeley was my favorite college campus. He said he went there in the 60s/70s and I was like “Oh wow, did you know Mario Savio?”

I asked if he participated in the protests. He said he didn’t, he “was there, just watched…” How sad to have lived through such a monumental moment in history when youths were gathering to generate public attention to problems that needed to be addressed. I don’t want to feel like that. It just sucks because I don’t know if economically people had more spending money but to go somewhere to protest costs: time away from work, gas, food, etc. Then you can be arrested and shit. Not to mention when you’re still going to school too. We have all these systems put in place to keep us in line and keep us busy.