I've said it before...

..and i will say it again.
Western Culture drives me MENTAL.

Seriously, I can barely stand it.

Bigger cars, bigger houses, bigger dinner plates... for our bigger meals, to fill our bigger stomachs, while we watch our bigger asses grow. Gah.

Coffee aka Americano-double-shot-espresso-venti-whipped-cream-goodness? Sure, do you want that in large, larger, or gallon size? For here? Or should we just strap wheels on it, and you can pulley it around all day?

Then you climb into your tank of a vehicle, go to your dead-end-life-sucking job in your tiny cubicle, so you can make some corporation millions of dollars a year, while you make $3-$10 over minimum wage, so you can buy more stuff, to pack into your giant house and car.

After an exhausting day of that drivel you make your way home, eat a giant meal, and sit in front of that mind-numbing box some people pass off as entertainment.

Then you save up from your miserable job, to go someplace sunny for 1 week.. and sit there like a lifeless lump... muttering about how "this is the life!"

Excuse me? WHAT??!!

There is something inherently wrong with this picture!

Yes, yes I do realize not EVERYONE is like this... but there are enough people out there, that can probably relate.

...and although I might sound bitter.. I'm really not.

I do have hope...and I do have faith.

...and no, i'm not having a 'the grass is greener' type of notion that other countries don't experience this... I'm sure there are little cities and suburbs in all countries that have the same trend... or worse.. aspire to this 'dream'.

Yes, I like the term dream.... Dreaming suggests that you are asleep.
It offers the notion of not being fully aware, and perhaps even sleeping walking in a dream like state.

Who hasn't felt like they are on auto-pilot and in a daze during their morning routine?

What I do hope for though, is that one day we are shaken to our very core, and wake the hell up.
Unleash ourselves from these shackles of greed, and lust for more more more.

Losing weight, or getting those new shoes, really won't fill the void, and if someone likes you more due to this, well.... perhaps they aren't the type of folks you want as company.

For years, I was a late 20-something gal, that felt almost embarrassed that I STILL didn't know what I wanted to do when i grew up...

Well, I'm in my early 30's now, and frankly I'm probably no closer to figuring it out... but at least I do know what I will not stand for, and what I don't want my life to settle into...

...and honestly... I feel like that's at least a step in the proper direction.