If you don't want to hear an angry rant, look elsewhere.

This isn't something I'd normally post, but it's been eating at me for a while.

Anyway, here's the rant:


When did we abandon our dreams? Sure, society has it’s own dreams, but what about the dreams of the individual? How many amongst us seem happy with their life? Satisfied? How many have spent their all chasing a dream that wasn’t theirs? How many are stuck in a dead in job that they hate? How many people are stuck with a life mate they don’t love? How many people are unable to find satisfaction in their day to day life?

Too few, that’s how fucking many. People seem to let their dreams become a fable, a reality that they decide, “I can’t achieve that.” It’s bullshit, as far as I’m concerned. I’m tired of people watering down their actions, their beliefs, simply to fit into a mold that THEY DON’T REALLY WANT! People let others tell them what to believe, how to dress, how to respond to what is perceived as a SOCIAL NORM! We shouldn’t have social norms. We’re becoming automations, machines, reacting as we’re told, as we’re expected to. I’m tired of it. To take a line from Waking Life (excellent movie, I’d suggest it to EVERYONE), “I don’t want to be an ant.” I’m tired of brushing up against people, and having them fall to ‘another face’ in my memory. I want to get to know you, regardless of who you are, what you believe, or whether either of us likes the other! I want to know more about this fucking environment I live in. I’m tired of reacting the way I’m ‘programmed’ to. I want to have something REAL, something HUMAN.

There are people who I’ve connected with on this level, and they generally know who they are. You’ve probably already heard this rant, in one form or another, if you know me very well at all.


But it begs, yet again, my attention. Right now, it’s getting below my skin, aggravating the piss out of me. I’m tired of being another statistic, another face passing by on the wind. I want to be real to you, a real person. I want to matter as more than just an image, a couple of words.[font=&quot][/font]


So, yeah, that's it. Take it or leave it, respond or not, now you know how I feel about it...

 

You do strike me as one of the Waking Life loving pseudo-intellectuals.

 

But is it worth blaming the people who alter their dreams? Perhaps they're taking the safe route in a society where taking the risk often doesnt pay off?

 

Yeah, BraveSirRubin, I'm a fan of Waking Life. But no, I'm not really a fanatic about it, and I don't draw too much of my mental inspiration from it, though it has changed (a bit) the way I look at things. It did encourage me to look to my own dreams (real dreams and metaphoric ones) and see how I could make them... fit my real desires for them.

And no, chris, I can't really blame them. Honestly, I support those sort of people, and respect them, but their viewpoint itself kind of irks me, despite the fact that I can't really blame them for following that lifestyle.

Sorry, I'm a bit high at the moment, and I can't quite find the words to express what I was trying to say...

 

Oh, perhaps I should go smoke and give you those words.

And yeah, I figured you'd probably been watching Waking Life or something. (I never watched it and don't really intend to... I'd rather just work with the concepts of something like that, rather than taking what the movie has to offer)

 

And it's more of a social average than a social norm. Social norm has become a bit cliche (and another annoyance is that they don't actually exist, same with political correctness--it was never correct in the first place).

 

Some dreams seem to expensive, some people are in a very different situation than you and some people think it's not worth the effort trying. In my experience, most people perfectly accept the situation there in though. Every job has it's bad days and every life has it's downsides.