"The American Dream"

...Is something I cannot understand for the life of me.

What is so appealing about having the same life as everyone else? 9 to 5 job, 2.5 kids, white picket fence, a family dog...so many of us seem to strive for something so mundane and cliched, and recently it has ceased making sense to me.

We all want to be "different", to try and set ourselves away from the crowd in some way, yet, as we grow older, something compels us to become yet another boring, dull, middle-aged American living "the dream".

From so many angles, we seem to be fed this conception of an ideal life. Movies, books, TV shows, magazines are all getting the finger here. (Not the middle one) We see Mr. and Mrs. Average Joe living so peacefully, usually encountering a series of average problems which end in the obvious moral the plot was pushing the whole time.

There's so much more we can do with our lives! Sure, you can have kids, sure, you can get yourself a nice, stable job, but be YOU. Don't fall into the supposedly perfect lifestyle, thrown at us from so many media outlets, don't become another faceless human being, irrelevant and impact-less on the world.

To quote a smarter man than I am,
"If you would not be forgotten, as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing."

MAKE YOUR MARK.