YODO; You Only Die Once June 2013 | Page 2

YODO; You Only Die Once

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You only live once. A thought-provoking statement meant to inspire youth to live life to its fullest. The motto of Generation Y is a swagged out, dumbed down carpe diem, twisted by immature youths as a means to justify stupidity:

“Going skydiving ‘cause YOLO!”

“Drinking ‘till I pass out tonight ‘cause YOLO!”

“Unprotected sex ‘cause YOLO!”

My foolish peers are too heavily invested in the YOLO mentality printed on the front of their snapbacks that they fail to see the true, agoraphobia-inducing meaning of the message. While you do only live once, you also only die once. You never know when and how you’re going to die, so be very, very careful. It’s because of this that I have changed the saying as means to justify my actions, in the same fashion as my peers have.

“Sanitizing my hands after shaking hands with a stranger because YODO!”

“Waiting an hour after I eat to go swimming because YODO!”

“Stopping, dropping and rolling because YODO!”

The following is a collection of ways that I, the writer, am scared to die and how statistically likely it is for you, the reader, to die that way because You. Only. Die. Once, so you should know how.

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