I have problems.

[veammn]

I've spent the past hour or two looking though my old LJ posts.

Wow. Life moves fast.

When i started this journal about 18 months ago, I took it a lot more seriously than I do now. My posts used to be poetry. Now they're just crappy vernacular shit.

A year ago yesterday I returned from a 2 week trip to North Carolina (Read: My Trip to the Bible

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[veammn]

It's not that I equate marrage and children with the end of 'life', believe me, I want them for myself one day.

But it's when that's all that a person does, when their entire ambition in life is to get married and retire to the suburbs, then I cringe, because I believe that the human being has evolved past that primordial instict of divide and multiply. I think we should each aim ourselves to something higher, whatever that may be. We have a responsibility to better our own society during the course of our lives, and not just to fit into a prescribed space or cubicle with no other goal than to make enough money to retire. What is the point in living if your entire life is spent working, looking toward that day when you're 65 and finally don't have to sit behind a desk anymore. And what is the point in living if all you want to do is clean up house and set the table. I'll concede that maybe for some people that makes them happy, but why not strive for something more? Why not devote your life to charity or creativity?

It's late and I'm rambling, but I simply believe that we all have the potential for greatness within us, and to see that potential untapped simply saddens me.