Deus Ex Machina

Zombie no go think unless you tell am to think.

So THINK goddamnit! I go along on the prescribed path and try to achieve within the bounds that I am given. I'm just setting myself up to be average, forgotten, irrelevant. Listen to others, sure, but I'll make up my own mind. Won't follow advice, I'll decide what's right for me. There will always be a traveled path with least resistance and better general outcome, but I should really just wander around the forest however my heart leads me. At least I'll know that I chose, that I won't regret not doing what I wanted to do. Being myself, listening to myself, finding strength in myself: that's the secret to success, not attitude. I define my own success when I stop trying to impress or please others.

Attention! Quick march! Slow march! Left turn! Right turn! About turn! Double up! Salute! Open your hat! Stand at ease! Fall in! Fall out! Fall down! Get ready--

Apply it to every bloody aspect of your life, and you'll find that I'm not lying. You've been told about the norms for relationships and desires and ways of life. These are such lies! The truth is that you don't have to go out with anyone to legitimize how you feel (after all, it's not about how others feel, it's about how the persons involved feel.) The truth is that you don't have to go to college to live a full life (after all, monetary success doesn't automatically breed whole-ness.) The truth is that nothing that happens in life can be taboo (after all, it happens, it's real, and there is no line of propriety.) The truth is that the lines that were set up for you when you were a child no longer need to exist as an adult. After all, an adult has the right to choose and, more importantly, has the knowledge to back up a decision.

Halt!

Well, we've been well trained. Brainwashed from birth. But when will we open our eyes? What does it take for us to realize that we don't live, and have never lived, in any real confines?

Order!

They don't need to graduate to realize it. Today is just another day. They can do anything they want on any given day. They accept the consequences and feel contented in the fact that it was their desire. They shouldn't have to feel as if they're stuck by consequence or by expectation.

Dismiss!

But the point isn't to listen. The point is for her to figure it out herself. Duh.

*saxaphone solo*