Anxieyote
Sobriety over everything else • 30 • Midwest
- Mar 24, 2021
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Every real-life interaction I have is very expected and tiresome. Polite conversation is the name of the game, and you have to adhere to the unspoken social rules in place. You can throw in a joke here and there (but nothing too crazy!), and you can direct conversations where you want them to go; to some extent.
I just wish there was more leeway in terms of…everything. There's so much that we could do to make our lives more exciting, but we can't because of social consequences.
One example I can think of is climbing on the balcony of my apartment and using it as a jungle gym. I'd love to pretend to be Spiderman and hang off of it just for fun.
Technically, I can do that, but nosy neighbors would file reports and my landlords would come knocking asking "Is everything ok?" because I deviated from normal social conventions.
It would make so much of a difference to spice things up, but we all have to do things at the appropriate time and place. For instance, someone can dress up as a comic book character at a convention and it's fine, but they're a complete lunatic if they wear it out in public outside of the convention.
So you can dress up as Spider-Man on Halloween or at a convention—but no other time. It's so frustrating because this is "the land of the free" but the stuff we're allowed to do is surprisingly limited. It just goes to show that we are still apes trying to mimic each other so that we will be accepted into the "in-group".
I just wish there was more leeway in terms of…everything. There's so much that we could do to make our lives more exciting, but we can't because of social consequences.
One example I can think of is climbing on the balcony of my apartment and using it as a jungle gym. I'd love to pretend to be Spiderman and hang off of it just for fun.
Technically, I can do that, but nosy neighbors would file reports and my landlords would come knocking asking "Is everything ok?" because I deviated from normal social conventions.
It would make so much of a difference to spice things up, but we all have to do things at the appropriate time and place. For instance, someone can dress up as a comic book character at a convention and it's fine, but they're a complete lunatic if they wear it out in public outside of the convention.
So you can dress up as Spider-Man on Halloween or at a convention—but no other time. It's so frustrating because this is "the land of the free" but the stuff we're allowed to do is surprisingly limited. It just goes to show that we are still apes trying to mimic each other so that we will be accepted into the "in-group".