Listening to these conversations people are having. Talking to their friends about moving to a new town, and self soothing themselves by getting confirmation that it is stressful and scary. Business deals going down on housing market deals, the realtor/action party is telling the lady how well respected they are, and how they pick up their phone at 2am if thats what's needed for her.
I'm 27, been to University, partied, studied. I have had a making ends meet job when a dropped out of Uni at the post office, and Then went back to school for Massage Therapy, and all the less than-stellar life adventures along the way. I feel like I have at lived at least an experienced my fair share as far as "lifetime firsts" go.
To me, it all sounds so scripted and the same as everyone's experience, including my own. They are the same words that ring through I'm sure every coffee shop downtown almost everyday. I sit here and listening to the things I know I have said myself before, albeit when I was about 21, while these individuals seem to be at least in their early-mid thirties. The real estate conversation, I had when I was 24, and is almost word for word what I was also told in my first meeting.
How uniquely do we live our lives if we have the same situations perpetuate over and over in so many lives? I'm sure it is good and fine to be happy and accepting of that, but what do we do when everything seems repetitive, and it sets you on edge, and keeps you from being at peace? Is it your job to re-indoctrinate yourself into the life everyone tells you is good? Or is it your job to start standing up against the current telling you to live that way? Is there one option that is better than the other?
These are the thoughts that pass by as conversations in the coffee shop fill my ears. I don't know what to do with it, but there it is.
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