Sunday, August 14, 2005

why should i be on the right track? why can't i make my own track?

So i caught up with a group of friends on the weekend. People who i've been e-mailing my little rants to and we just got talking about where we all are at the moment. It seems the freedom we were all expecting to lay our hands on when we left uni comes with some hidden catches. We were talking about how all of us are for the first time starting to earn some decent money, well decent enough, and straight away there is all this pressure to have a financial plan, to save, to invest. And those of us not in relationships are being pressured into settling down. And it comes from everywhere. The girls in relationships wanna know when we are going to find a nice girl, our folks wanna know when we are going to settle down. But come on, this is the part of life that we all should be doing stuff that when we finally do settle down, we can look back at and laugh at.

So we started doing a list of all the things we thought we would be doing now and all the things that are stopping us. And man, it was amazing. It seems there are all these limits around us to keep us in check. To keep us on the "right track". do this at work and you'll be on the "right track" to a promotion. Do this with your hard earned money and you'll be on the "right track" to financial security. Date a nice girl and you'll be on the "right track" to a home, a family, etc.

I say stuff the right track. Give me the wrong track. Or better yet let me make my own track. Let me make mistakes. Glorious huge mistakes.

POSTED BY THE ZERO MOVEMENT AT 7:48 PM

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