Question Train

Moved from endless trees to endless asphalt. Did it to find opportunities not evident in Humboldt County. Grad school starting in just over a month. Big business ideas waiting for realization. Bringing the Humboldt grassroots mindset with me to the capital. Everyone seems to struggle so much...myself included. So everyone aboard the question train:
Why is the starving artist an accepted standard?
Does making money make you a douche bag?
Does it really make you wear your own ass as a hat?
I guess it depends on how you define success...
Is it an intrinsic sense of enlightenment?
Is it a plentiful bank account?
Clearly it's not wearing your ass as a hat.
So, is it people who respect you? love you? listen to you? adore you? reciprocate all you have to offer? having a lot to offer?
I wonder what will happen if I never find out?

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