I realize I'm several years behind the mainstream, but one of my new favorite movie quotes is from the movie/book _Fight_Club_: "I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
Those are words to live by, man. Even though we're all told as kids that we're "special, unique snowflakes", in the end, we're all pretty much destined for mediocrity. It's depressing to think that I'm going to work the rest of my life just to pay down the debt that I've accumulated up to now. I've just got to find my own little ways to "pursue happiness" in the meantime. I guess this pretty much explains the endurance of religion; people need to hope/believe that there's something better after they're dead.
Those are words to live by, man. Even though we're all told as kids that we're "special, unique snowflakes", in the end, we're all pretty much destined for mediocrity. It's depressing to think that I'm going to work the rest of my life just to pay down the debt that I've accumulated up to now. I've just got to find my own little ways to "pursue happiness" in the meantime. I guess this pretty much explains the endurance of religion; people need to hope/believe that there's something better after they're dead.