dear jess,
im feeling really passionate and idealistic tonight. yesterday i took a plane to my ideal country spain, and guess what? everyone there eats toenails. No kidding, and so i thought about it for a while, it seemed silly i know but i decided to ask a commoner. Hey whats with the toenails? and well apparently it was a norm, an accepted thing and so if i didnt do it id be weird. So i went ahead and took a toenail and just as i was about to put it in my mouth i woke up.
What makes us do the things we do? or more importantly what makes us accept the things we do? Why do we sit back and accept the fact that we will end up in a white collar job, get married before our 30s have two kids and die- thinking our lives were nice and complete? What makes us accept the fact that because things were done the same way as they've been 10 years ago it must be right? what makes us believe that our lives will end up happy? What makes us sit down and watch whilst indonesian's and philipino workers have absolutely no rights, and no ones fighting for them, what makes us sit back and knowingly let them be punished by fellow malaysian's? what makes us think that it is the mad men who are crazy and not us? What makes us think that women are the ones who needs rights to be fought for whilst men suffer in silence? What makes us think that we shouldnt stand up and make a change? Who on earth let us think that it was wrong to be idealistic?
Its funny, our paths have been set out in our head even before we realised it. When we were young and idealistic we swore we wouldnt spend ten hours at a job in front of a computer for the next 20 years of our lives. Is that so wrong? No but neither is leaving every comfort and security behind, taking all your money and travelling the world.
Why do we accept the fact that change has to be done by someone else, and not me? Because we're too comfortable, and because we love the taste of toenails..
Yours in the midst of spitting some nails out,
jess
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