ever wonder where here is? or how the hell you got here? and most importantly…how do you get out of here?
i sit on the train, with music muffling the noise from the tracks…and watch people. everyone’s expression is varying degrees of sameness. no one is excited to go to work in the morning i suppose…but there are looks of downright despair on some faces…maybe even mine.
so why are we all here…gathered every morning on the same platform, seeing the same faces yet never interacting with anyone…dragging our feet to the final destination, knowing we’ll be sitting for the next 8-10 hours (some even more), only to drag ourselves back home to do it all over again tomorrow. oh right…mortgage, children, responsibilities.
so here we are then…this is adulthood. it’s depressing if you think about it. we used to get together with friends at a drop of a hat…if someone calls, we’ll be out the door before the conversation ends…but now, everyone refers to their PDA’s, blackberry, calendar, datebook, whatever it is that you carry. to get together, you have to be celebrating something…birthday, job, promotion, divorce, marriage, death…whatever. when did we lose that innocence…that spark for life? is it that we’re more self/family-centric now? or that we’re selfish with our time…the precious few moments we have between days of work to relax and do something we want to? ever realize that even in your “spare” time, you still don’t do what you need to? obligation, tasks, to do…what else is there? vacations aren’t vacations anymore…bring yoru laptop, your bb, your cell phone so your boss can always call you and ask you about something that you probably didn’t even work on. when has that become the norm?
we work for that better future…but when is it that we’ll realize that in working for the future, life as we want it is getting further away, and life as we’ve come to accept is settling in?
~ciao