I think when most people are growing up they either become in love with where they are from and find pride in it or they have an undying desire to get the hell out of where they are from .
Finding pride in where you are from is funny to me as its a geographic mistake or game of chance .
You are from where your parents f**ked which does not mean you should find pride in it , it means you have the choice of being proud of where you were born .
To me I think you should be proud of who you came from not where.
And in some cases you should not be proud of any of these random natural flukes .
I personally have to say I am less and less happy with where I am from and have spent the majority of my adult live trying to avoid it. But as time goes by its not the place I want to avoid it is the people.
And in all truth my past has been something I'd love to avoid too.
Im from what can only be described as north east purgatory where dreams are rare and those who follow them are even more rare.
Where those with passion drive and hopeful creative spirits are made to feel foolish for ever feeling excited about art or culture or creativity because there is a chance you might fail !
People in little town fear failure so much they would rather live the day to day and not risk the option of losing.
Be an adult , get married, have kids, and a small house , and shitty 9-5 and 5 days a week go to the same over and over with the highlight of a televised event to close out the weeks drudge and labor .
These people have passions they wanted to be something at some point in their life but they got to a point or some one said their ideas were stupid dreams and never gonna happen and they said yeah you are right and they went on their paths .
I personally dont think people have purposes here any more than a cat has one to shit in a box its just what they do because its in their nature.
Rights and goals and morals and values are human creations and self appointed .
People set goals so they can do something with the time they have on earth .
Some people want to get a pizza friday and watch the game and thats a goal .
Some people want to entertain and make people forget how boring and awful life can be .
Some people just want to have the world hand them hope.
And some people get it !
Its all bullshit and its all a time killer . Small towns breed big dreams with little result and more often than not the ones who end up doing something amazing are both treated like a local treasure and become bar room fodder when not in ears distance of insult.
I guess the thing is risks and Passions are 50/50 sure you may piss in the wind but sometimes the wind will allow you to piss on others from a great distance !
