Reality Bites
"There's no point to any of this.
It's all just a...
A random lottery of meaningless tragedy...
and a series of near escapes.
So I take pleasure in the details, you know.
A Quarter-Pounder with cheese.
Those are good.
The sky about... ten minutes before it starts to rain.
The moment where your laughter becomes a cackle.
And I sit back, and I... I smoke my Camel straights.
And I ride my own melt."
From Lisa Loeb to Stay (I miss you) to missing him to Reality Bites, I am my past and present. I am of riding my own melt and of eternity. I am of meaninglessness and I am of the truth.
Those of my age would have lived through their twenties in the 90s and would have watched Reality Bites and would relate to the hero and heroines who are incapable of any human sensibilities to realize how uninspiring their cynism and sarcasm are and how disgusting that Gen-X attitude that the world is not good enough for us because we are the smart ones.
"And they wonder why those of us in our twenties...
refuse to work an 80-hour week...
just so we can afford to buy their BMWs...
why we aren't interested...
in the counterculture that they invented...
as if we did not see them disembowel their revolution...
for a pair of running shoes."
No….not the world, not its defined ways of success. We did worse. We used it as an excuse for our selfishness, for our callous and irresponsible behavior that spawned pain, regrets and days of pondering the irony of it all. How do we repair ‘all the damages we inherit’ and acquire?
"Fellow graduates, the answer is simple.
The answer is...
The answer is...
I don't know."
The scary thing is you are still living in your twenties. Once you reached your twenties, it is a pathology you can’t quite leave.
"I want to do that again. I want to just...
look up at the stars and take the time to...
smell the...
everything.
Because it's like... do you ever have those moments in life...
where everything is OK? Do you know what I mean?
Just for, like, one moment, everything is great."
(note: those in quotes are from Reality Bites.)
It's all just a...
A random lottery of meaningless tragedy...
and a series of near escapes.
So I take pleasure in the details, you know.
A Quarter-Pounder with cheese.
Those are good.
The sky about... ten minutes before it starts to rain.
The moment where your laughter becomes a cackle.
And I sit back, and I... I smoke my Camel straights.
And I ride my own melt."
From Lisa Loeb to Stay (I miss you) to missing him to Reality Bites, I am my past and present. I am of riding my own melt and of eternity. I am of meaninglessness and I am of the truth.
Those of my age would have lived through their twenties in the 90s and would have watched Reality Bites and would relate to the hero and heroines who are incapable of any human sensibilities to realize how uninspiring their cynism and sarcasm are and how disgusting that Gen-X attitude that the world is not good enough for us because we are the smart ones.
"And they wonder why those of us in our twenties...
refuse to work an 80-hour week...
just so we can afford to buy their BMWs...
why we aren't interested...
in the counterculture that they invented...
as if we did not see them disembowel their revolution...
for a pair of running shoes."
No….not the world, not its defined ways of success. We did worse. We used it as an excuse for our selfishness, for our callous and irresponsible behavior that spawned pain, regrets and days of pondering the irony of it all. How do we repair ‘all the damages we inherit’ and acquire?
"Fellow graduates, the answer is simple.
The answer is...
The answer is...
I don't know."
The scary thing is you are still living in your twenties. Once you reached your twenties, it is a pathology you can’t quite leave.
"I want to do that again. I want to just...
look up at the stars and take the time to...
smell the...
everything.
Because it's like... do you ever have those moments in life...
where everything is OK? Do you know what I mean?
Just for, like, one moment, everything is great."
(note: those in quotes are from Reality Bites.)
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