I’ve been a rebel since my early teenage years. I always hated the idea of “choosing” your most preferred cage, out of the cages society presents to you as “viable” options. While they do make it sound like you got a choice, the truth is – at the end of the day – you haven’t really got much say in it.
For almost every individual I have known, life has been a checklist:
- SSC / O-levels
- HSC / A-levels
- University Graduation
- Post Graduation
- Secure Job
- Marriage
- Kids
While I know this is the “safest” checklist to rely on, I could NEVER put my mind to it. I absolutely hated running after marks in educational institutions and feeling an extremely low self-esteem there which apparently none of my peers felt.
All I wanted to do was discover – anything, anywhere, anyhow.
The scary thing about traveling a road no one else is walking on – is the constant eerie silence. There is NOBODY walking with you, behind you, in front of you – there is no SIGN of anybody’s footsteps around you. It is quite scary to look around for the presence of a living being and only seeing more of the horizon.
While the landscape of this pathway is quite extraordinary and I crave it every day stronger than the day before, it alone is not enough to carry my ambitions forward.
At this point, I’m not even sure what these ambitions are, or what they are becoming.
The future looks like a spooky silhouette. No one can tell me what’s waiting for me behind it, simply because there is no one.
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