Living A Lie

November 8, 2024

There’s a small moment of time between gaining that infamous degree and finding the career you wished upon since who-knows how long. If you act fast, make the right choices and focus you will soon experience what so many others call “The American Dream”. But, if you stray too far from this path, your outcome is inevitably fucked.

There is no moment of clarity or time to breathe after you obtain that abundance of knowledge your bank account can muster. There is only survituted, and brief moments of rest. Realization and hope are forever altered or in some severe cases, obliterated. People lose hope fast, they give up because support is limited, and the future is not always forgiving. Look at our society, not only the country you live in but the overall understanding of humanity and how we interact on this giant blue marble. It’s, once again, kind of fucked.

The idea of civilization and working together is a flawed one. Millenia has shown us this, and yet we do not listen, nor do we care more importantly. We fight for togetherness while still hoping our individuality is never pierced. We pray for things like, “To End World Hunger”, but only if that doesn’t interfere with our own “Hunger”. We are a selfish breed of cells and atoms that believe in absolutes, nothing can change that, and that’s what makes us beautiful.

The very fact that we hope and try everyday to change our inability is extraordinary. We might seem ignorant and cruel and misguided, on the outside, but after consideration we are a strong race willing to fight and die for what we believe in, even if we know, deep down, our beliefs are unobtainable. We don’t care. That is our problem and our solution.

So, I sit here writing this behind a desk that overlooks the next generation of young minds. Who will live, strive, and fail by these very ideals and yet, I feel somewhat hopeful.