No. I'm not happy, but maybe that's just life.
Is that the big secret? That we are all miserable and unfulfilled? Lost as to what we want in this world and where our place is?
Do we all watch tv and go to the movies, drink with friends, listen to our music when ever we're alone, so that we don't get a second of silence. No moment alone with our thoughts because when we think it is scary.
We have been educated in critical analysis and instructed what to feel at each key life stage. Stages that were handily given to us in pamphlet form during a sex ed class; any gaps to be filled by school yard gossip and advertising.
You teens must be confusing and angst ridden, but you must also have sex - with one steady partner. Now is the time to smoke weed.
Your 20's are when you are your most beautiful. If you are not beautiful now you never will be. You should be having sex regularly, knowing their names is optional. If you are still a virgin you are a creep. You shall experiment further with drugs, if you haven't smoked weed yet you are boring, ditto if you haven't had a lesbian experience. You shall drink, continuously. You must be irresponsible. You must love sex. You must be happy. These are the best days of your life, it is all down hill from here.
In your 30's you are successful. You know about wine and you drive a nice car. You do not have room mates. You still love sex unless you are in a relationship. You will be marrying soon, ideally you will be married and pregnant. You go to office parties and watch the news. You are still friends with people from your 20's. You are a milf. you are glamourous.
In your 40's you have a midlife crisis. You're tired by the kids or worse you are single. If so you are beyond Bridget jones levels and may as well be dead. You might change your career, or you might be getting a divorce.
In your 50's you are old and may as well not exist until you are a grandparent and making films about you dating are more com than rom.
But what if you are 20 and unhappy?
What if you are 30 and unemployed?
You turn on your iPod and don't think about it.
