There's something I always hate about living here. Nothing changes while everything's different. My room is a time capsule while the rest of the house moves or disappears. The paintings on the walls got sold, all previous pieces of furniture have been replaced with manufactured effort. None of it seems to be original and none of it seems to be meaningful.
I wake up and it's the exact same as before. The sun gleams in my window at the same angle, and I find myself waking up with the same ache under my eyelids. The house is still and silent because nobody else is home. The years of memories start seeping through the walls and I can hear them in the uncomfortable stillness.
Consumerism has stripped my family away. All of this money goes to buying, and buying, and buying. It was all perfectly fine before.
"No no, it doesn't look good to me. This is far too ugly. That there is in good condition but it looks far too old. I wish for it all to be matching. I wish for my house to look like an IKEA display!"
I wish people learned to enjoy what they have. Our society has been built under money. We can't find peace in our everyday lives so we fill the void with corporate traps, and we get our dopamine rushes from feeling accomplished. Every trend we follow makes us feel aligned with the herd, every new popular thing we get our hands on makes us feel like a winner. That's because when we get home from our 8 hour shifts it's all we have left. There's no more time for hobbies, and there's no more time for exploration. Those are luxuries for the rich who use our time as benefits for themselves.
Existing is a rebellion because I don't like trends and I don't like buying. Consuming will kill us.
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annieapplepies
i personally have a hard time understanding, i could probably comprehend a portion of your perspective(not in a bad way ok i really like this)
i don’t know, i guess i don’t exactly see much wrong with wanting to customize your house, but maybe that’s an understatement to a different problem you want to address.
i think i do get the part where we participate in incessant consuming to make us feel happy instead of redirecting that energy into something actually beneficial
Bver
I absolutely agree with this, im a high school student so I don't have a j*b but what I hate to see is people following trends not cuz they like it but because it helps them "fit in".
I don't blame you if you listen to a trendy song or buy a trendy outfit once in a while cuz you like it, but changing your personality is a different story, I don't want to see millions of the same person with the same interest talking about the same thing. I want you to differentiate yourself from the rest, hence why I love the quote "living by the fear of being average".
If I had gone by that living standard long ago you wouldnt see me expressing myself freely like this, I wouldn't show my love for a franchise simply because its not "in right now" or hide it because I might be "judged".
authenticity is amazing :o
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wait no, maybe complexity instead xd
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