Crystal Cheatham — Indie from the start

Money is the root of all evil but it’s also the root of all stupid. Here I am young, beautiful, and graduated and ready to live life and I’ve got this giant thorn in my side! It’s a tether holding me inches from my freedom. Why is money so important? Why can’t I just be a mooch and live off my mom for the rest of my life? I wish it was ok to be a mooch, but I think that would ruin me too.
Everywhere I look old classmates and even those who graduated after me have got jobs, lives, and relationships. And here I am trying to gather the remnants of a dream; a dream that I’ve got high hopes in building. But without the mortar of money, that stupid ingredient, how far can my passion take me?
I think this is a question everyone wonders, especially after high school. That’s when they throw around those big goals to “change the world,” and “imagine new horizons.” The pessimist in me would like to think that it’s all fake, that we can’t achieve great things because the world isn’t fertile where we need it to be. But the truth is, if we leave money out of the reasons why we choose to go forward or not, then we’ve got something. If we can muster the courage to look past the funds, the bills, and the scanty paychecks and just live, well we will be closer to our dream then when we were counting pennies, nickels, and dimes.
I won’t be a mooch. I promise not to be. But in the hopes of actually achieving all that is in me, I guess it’s ok to be for a little while longer. One small step at a time. Here’s to life, dreams, and being broke.