You see the slogan printed everywhere: “LIVE YOUNG AND FREE”, on t-shirts and tote bags and you stop and think; really think.
Yes, you want (you wish) to be young and free but instead you feel old, thousands of years wasted away, centuries expired from your earthly body and trapped as any yearning soul would feel trapped in a useless life form.
You want to live young and free, abandon the norm and lead a zealous expedition, but instead you sit in this lonely café wearing dark colors and drinking a lukewarm beverage.
Yes, you want to be spontaneous but at the end of the day, you’re still here, in this boring existence- still you.
(And maybe that’s okay.)
And so, you muse, YOUNG AND FREE isn’t so much a lifestyle as a state of mind, one you certainly don’t possess (and one you’re not entirely sure if you’d want to possess if you could anyway)
We’re all supposed to be unique, right? That seems reason enough for you. What if you’re perfectly happy doing the mundane? What if there are already enough free spirits out there, and all the world needs right now is the rational folk who go through the motions, the sad souls who feel old and trapped.
(You know, the ones who sit in sad cafés wearing dark colors and have a habit of overthinking.)
You are rather content in your normalcy, after all, so perhaps this isn’t such a bad thing.
But since we are all special and unique, perhaps you’re the perfect mixture of YOUNG AND FREE and old and trapped, an unusual balance in this chaotic world.
Because you’re happy being you, the you you’ve chosen to be, not the fake persona forced upon you by others who think they hold your best interests. (They don’t).
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