remember in the shawshank redemption when brooks left and then killed himself because he didn’t know what to do with himself in the real world after so long in prison? morgan freeman said something like, ‘he’s just institutionalized, that’s all.’ and that’s how morgan freeman paved his career as a narrator. people thought that movie was good because morgan freeman narrated it. whether that was true or not (it was not), freeman, from that point on, was hired for any movie requiring narration. but i fear for myself. and my classmates. after twelve years of grade school and four years of college and four years of graduate school, what’s going to happen when we graduate? will half of us take bagging jobs at the local grocery store, be rebuked for forgetting to double bag, carve our names in our apartments, and hang ourselves? it’s something i worry about. what’s it going to be like not having to wake up early or stay up late? it seems like it would be great. but all those poor souls at shawshank thought it would be great. and you know where they are? dead.
