They just want us to be safe.  They just want us to be secure, to make sure our lives are not too difficult.  They want to keep us “realistic”, to keep us “grounded” so we don’t become impractical dreamers, so we don’t walk around with our head in the clouds.  So we don’t end up jobless and homeless and living on our parents’ couch.

The fear of ending up jobless and homeless and living on my parents’ couch keeps me in a box, keeps me in cubicle land, keeps me afraid of everything.  EVERYTHING.

I don’t want to be afraid.  I don’t want to exist in this teeny tiny little confining box of my own mental creation.

I want to break out!  BE FREE!  I want to try new things, to be afraid of something and do it anyway.  I want to set aside all my stupid excuses and hesitations and the fear of disappointing everyone, and just GO FOR IT, whatever IT may be on any particular day.

BE THE SWOOSH!!!