Do you recall when we were released
Clutching diplomas and degrees
Bursting out like divers breath
That hasn't hit the surface yet
Do you ever feel this way
Like somehow we have been betrayed
And you wanna' rail against the crowd
Conspicuos and loud
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(Chase the Buffalo - Pierce Pettis)
I don't think I've felt like the first verse for a very long time; I have a feeling that no one really feels like that anymore; how very sad. When did life become a series of seamless transitions, and not a leap into the unknown? Why don't we feel excited about life? About LIFE, and not just the fleeting things we do? When did we get brainwashed into playing safe?
Life is a dual highway with no turnoffs. One lane being, Degree -> Corporate Dummy/MS -> Corporate Zombie; the other lane is the whole marriage, funerals, weddings, social functions that require facial muscle strain, crap.
We allow our lives to be dictated by all the wrong things. We allow ourselves to be wound up like toy soldiers. How is it that we have come to accept this as normal?
Routine; everything is a routine these days.Breaking out of a routine, just means conforming to another routine; skipping grooves. It's like our lives have been quantized; almost as if there are predefined routines that we are supposed to fit into; like energy levels of an atom. And inbetween these energy levels, what lies inbetween?
Enough of this, people! It's time for adventure! Time to leap into the void!
urped by gumz @ 6:59 PM
