Articles tagged with: choice
One of the things I love about this blog is seeing other people ponder the same dilemmas as I’m having, as a twentysomething confused about their life direction. It’s comforting to know you aren’t alone …
I do not celebrate my birthday. It has been a source of annual frustration in my life.
The issue comes from my twenty-something need to experience the world and my human need not to be uncomfortable.
She looked like chocolate tastes and stared like Whiskey feels. I could have stood there for hours. No conception of time, locked on her eyes, sparkling blue like jagged cut sapphires under a light. She asked, with her East European accent, “would you like to have a drink?”
A discussion of California’s failed Proposition 19 and what it means for groovy people like you.
As a baby of the choice generation, I’ve never considered the consequences of my choices on anyone other than myself. Membership in the choice generation assures that kind of self reference. After all, our generation seeks choice the way Baby Boomers sought wealth. We want to appropriate it and own it. Ownership accompanies possession. Possession implies a private relationship of closed interaction. We view our choices only as they pertain to us and only as they effect and consequence our lives.
A few nights ago I had a chance to party with an old friend. But our choices are making that an unsteady enterprise.
