The white picket fence, the two children, the perfect little suburban life is....the biggest bullshit we have all been fed from childhood. From the second we are born, our cookie cutter parents try to force us into the same cookie cutter mold they were forced into, and that their parents were forced into. They make you think that you have to go school and get into college, you have to get married and settle into a boring suburb and pop at least 2 kids to be considered successful.
I quickly sensed this epic lie when I was quite young. I woke up and opened my eyes to the zombies I was sharing that dying, trap of a town with. It was a joke. So I went to Kansas for college. Sure, it wasn't the most glamorous place to be, but I could breath away from the choking mediocrity of my home town and all of the fools I grew up with. I was able to see what I wanted my life to be, and what I sure as hell DIDN'T want my life to be.
Luckily, I found my other half who felt the same stifling, soul-sucking atmosphere I had always felt in the town. We left. We moved to Seattle, a place filled with choices and creativity, and just things to do! They say you can always go home. Well I say, who the hell wants to!
I just feel bad for all of those cookie cutter zombies I left behind. The ones who let themselves get stuck there. The ones who got married and bought the house. The ones who had kids too young. The trapped ones. The ones whose lives are as predictable and un-glamorous as that shithole little town. I sort of look forward to going to my ten year reunion. Oh you still live here and have 3 kids and are so bored with your life you are about to have a psychotic break? Awwww,,,good for you!
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