Went to school and I was very nervous, no one knew me, no one knew me...
All right, so fine. I'm an overly idealistic, overly ceremonial, overly racinated prude from a rural backwater with a harsh climate. Great.
What I want to know is, is there something wrong with being an overly idealistic, overly ceremonial, overly racinated prude from a rural backwater with a harsh climate? Because I loved my childhood of back roads and far towns, I love my family, I love my ideals and my little rituals, and I take a perverse pride in having more in common when it comes to thoughts on human relationships with the characters in Kokoro or Aoi Hana than I do with most actual Americans who are actually my age.
I believe in progress, but as a means, not an end. I believe in tradition, but as something to be worked on, not something to be obeyed. My view of the world isn't of a purely fleshy sickness and exhaustion nor is it of a purely spiritual nightmare with no signs and nothing signified. It's of pale apple blossoms in a rain of blood.
Where's my elan vital? What about Rural Queer Progressive Prude Pride?
(NB: The word 'racinated' actually doesn't involve race, it just means to have strong attachments to period and place.)
What I want to know is, is there something wrong with being an overly idealistic, overly ceremonial, overly racinated prude from a rural backwater with a harsh climate? Because I loved my childhood of back roads and far towns, I love my family, I love my ideals and my little rituals, and I take a perverse pride in having more in common when it comes to thoughts on human relationships with the characters in Kokoro or Aoi Hana than I do with most actual Americans who are actually my age.
I believe in progress, but as a means, not an end. I believe in tradition, but as something to be worked on, not something to be obeyed. My view of the world isn't of a purely fleshy sickness and exhaustion nor is it of a purely spiritual nightmare with no signs and nothing signified. It's of pale apple blossoms in a rain of blood.
Where's my elan vital? What about Rural Queer Progressive Prude Pride?
(NB: The word 'racinated' actually doesn't involve race, it just means to have strong attachments to period and place.)