"From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. [...] I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, and I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet" (Plath, The Bell Jar 62-63).
isn't that how it is? man I really just don't want to have to make decisions. I watched some of the people walking around "freshfields" on kiawah island today, and it looks like they have it all, but for some reason, I just can't imagine they're happy. I know that's an unfair judgement, but I don't want to be like that. I don't want to have to live a certain way to fulfill certain and specific unspoken rules. I read today in a profile of the lead guy from the brunettes that his life goal is to "find the right girl and disappear." What a thrilling goal that is--to disappear with the one you love because nothing else matters; your life is not governed by the raucous sound of paradoxically deafening unspoken rules. I don't know... sometimes I look at people, and I just want to shake them and say, are you happy? are you even alive?
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Hey Rachel!!!
I'm in London, just got here this morning from Brugges, Belgium. Went and got really high in Amsterdam yesterday. I'm flying back to the U.S. on July 4th after an excursion in Scotland. Then a few hours after arriving in ATL, I am flying to Sun Valley, Idaho until the 10th. A week or two after I get back we are going to Folly BEach, SC, near charleston?? Do you want to hang out in Charleston?? I'll be there for a full week and need a friend :-). Caio
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