but why would I want to do a thing like that?

[lauralh]

OK maybe I just watched Fight Club yesterday, but it really ticks me off when otherwise intelligent, semi-rebellious and creative people BITCH and MOAN because (insert stupid societal standard of success) has eluded them. I mean, come on.

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[lastdata.livejournal.com]

are you talking about critical praise or vanity in assets? the everyman or celebrities? (or maybe just your friends)???

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

mainly people I know, or don't know as the case may be. "oh my god I'm almost thirty and I'm not married with kids or as successful as my parents were at my age." like, no fucking kidding.

[lastdata.livejournal.com]

fair enough, though i watch fight club and think about things in relation to myself, not others. it inspires me to change myself, (perhaps others, but only in turn). hope it doesn't sound like i'm taking a dig at you. i'm not. in any way.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Well yeah, but then I read people bitching online and that's my thought. And I don't want to change others, but it makes me not want to associate with that kind of person. These people are normally cool, but then they judge their lives in terms of where society says they should be, and they get upset about it.

[sarahbliss.livejournal.com]

Married with kids at 30?

I think that would be my worst nightmare realized.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

having children is basically my worst nightmare. living in a big house in the suburbs comes damn close tho...

[sarahbliss.livejournal.com]

I hear that. I'd much rather live in a cool little studio in the middle of a metropolis.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

"but then you're not building equity!"