Introductions, Clarifications, and a Few Loose Bolts

Me in front of Stonehenge, where I was last month

Name's Ben. 

Seventeen y/o, slight problems with authority. I have a golden retriever named Brody, he's retarded and he takes after his owner in terms of issues with authority. Doesn't really listen and is basically useless because all he does is sit...
Anyways, I started a blog because I provide an interesting view to a world that many of you people have left behind. I am in the precarious position of an adolescent, a transitionary stage from childhood to adulthood, set in a world that is also in a stage of transition which is interesting. Adults expect us as youth to be some shining paragon of hope or whatever and truly we have no clue what we're doing. Handing us the future of the world is like handing a five year old the keys to a Ferrari, we have the potential to do some amazing stuff but there is also the chance that we utterly destroy what we're handed. We attend "school" for the majority of a year and at the end we're expected to pass a test that decides where we go to school for the NEXT four years, which then dictates what we do with the rest of our lives, in terms of work, family, place of residence, etc. etc.
There's my "rebellious youth" moment. Really I promise I'm more domestic than that. I have hopes and dreams just like everyone and I have no clue what they are! If you find them do send them my way.
More about  me… I work at a hardware store with two Vietnam vets who are very typical old men and spend more time complaining than actual working though they both know a vast amount of information and have tons of valuable life lessons ever-ready to hand me, willing or not. I sound more bitter than I intend, but that's because in most ways I'm more of a realist than many people.