What does it mean to settle?
Can someone reconcile for me the difference between buying into the American Dream (which I would say is a fallacy, in that it doesn't deliver anything emotionally - instead it just delivers stuff) and the flip side of our culture not (generallly???) having the courage to believe in the romance of life... Are we, in fact, settling for the American Dream?
And, of course, one more picture...
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She is beautiful, Blazer. What pretty pictures.
What is the romance of life? I think this needs to be defined or at least clarified. Or is it something different to each person? Or do people already know and I'm just out of the loop? I've never been one who is big on the American Dream because I think that is just the way God made me. Not because I'm "above" that or anything, just b/c I don't desire to have children or climb the corporate ladder, and I HATE yard work so that leaves no desire to have a home. But even with that I find myself at times getting sucked into the cultural pressures to conform or do "what's expected of me."
I've forgotten your original question so I'll just end this here... just thoughts.
it's me slaps. i don't have a blog, and i don't want one. i also don't capitalize letters.
"...our culture not having the courage to believe in the romance of life..."
romance of life? this is my definition. and it will the poorest example you will ever hear, but...
i didn't go to prom junior year. mainly because i couldn't get a date...but i was pressured to go by a lot of people. not going was against the norm according to my social status in high school.
that night i hung out with 2 other guys and we watched "don't be a menace to south central while drinking your juice in the hood." worst movie ever. but it was one of the best nights i had in high school.
i want to have the confidence to live the romance of life.
my thoughts didn't flow as well as i wanted them to.
go red sox.
I think I mean how the American Dream: stuff; doesn't equal happiness. How it looks romantic in beer commericals, but really sex actually makes loneliness (considering it, here, the human condition) worse when in the wrong context. How on-line relationships kind of do the same thing, the are not intrinsically wrong, like others things, but often lead to greater lonliness because there is a sense and illusion of connectedness, but no realy connection... Ironically, I would write that on my blog... Does that help Slaps and Jessica?
Most of my prayers involve wanting more, while most of my problems are because I have too much. sh
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