the death of the american dream...
i've always been something of a news junkie. online journalism is far more appealing than broadcast (i find the latter more ego-centric and entertainment driven), but i've become even more so with my new phone. i have applications from nine different news sources (well, eight, really -- the onion is the ninth) including the advocate, bbc news, fox news, the huffington post, npr news, the new york times, newsy.com, and usa today, and i access all of them regularly. i love it. especially newsy, because they draw from all of the other sources and keep things relatively more neutral. which, now that i think of it, is amusing that there can be varying degrees of neutrality. anywho.
anyway, i was reading usa today and stumbled on this article that cites a study of 300 million tweets and concludes that people are happiest on sunday mornings and saddest around thursday nights. it makes sense, after all. on sunday morning people have had some time to relax after the M-F 9-5, and they still have all day sunday in front of them, while on thursday they're already worn out from the week and they still have to go to work the next day. but how sad is that!? this article grabbed my attention because that's always been something i've wanted to avoid in my life -- the daily grind. the slog. because isn't it basically just the death of dreams?
i've never been a big proponent of the american dream. white picket fence and 2.5 kids and church on sundays and thinly veiled alcoholism supported by a job as an insurance salesmen finding ways to scare people into giving you money and then dodging them when they need a little of it back. not to dog on insurance people -- just the first thing that popped into mind. but you all remember the movie "the incredibles" where the dad did just that... boring claims person, back and forth to work every day, no excitement, when he had all of this potential inside him. why can't people be proud of the superheroes they are?
so what happened to us? how did we get stuck in this rut?
i blame the capitalists.
seriously, though. what do you think? or is everything fine the way it is?
day thirty. share what you have learned, if anything, about yourself over the last thirty days.
welp, finally done. and it only took me two months. ha. i think i even predicted as much. what did i learn? um... lol. not much. got me posting a bit more, though, so that's good. but now i'm gonna go swimming. laters!