You could say that 9 to 5 is the way to do things and all life is about is work. We go to school when we're younger to be exposed to a variety of things primarily so that we'll make an informed decision when we have to choose what we're going to be for the rest of our lives. But what about being ourselves? Is that ok? Why do we work so hard to maintain so much stuff that means nothing? Work supercedes home and family forsaking an feigned, uncertain comfortability and fertile soil for our children as we work our lives away. Why do our children do homework late into the night? All to get a secondary education that will catapult them into a higher education to help them secure that 9 to 5 which will then place them in the same predicament. Who's taking care of home? Without a mate, who's taking care of me? Making sure that I eat my three meals a day and such? I can't very well create a home for myself if all I do is work and home is primarily for sleep.
I'm not against working, because that's built into the design, but I'm sorry... making a living should never get in the way of living. I think if more people understood that a lot would be different.
That's why when I hear songs like "Letting Go" by Janelle Monae and "Waltz" by Fiona Apple I feel like they get it. I'm ok with dropping everything (my work) to live for a moment and have a time out, because those moments are what I'll remember when I'm older. I'll remember how me and my homegirl randomly walked to Georgia State one beautiful afternoon or how we ended up at a happy hour in a secluded spot or that flower I discovered when I stopped to look. Yeah, I'm a dreamer and I can be criticized for living in the not-present and it's a thing that I love/hate about myself, but when it's all said and done I've learned to appreciate and expect surprises from the tangential.
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