Vanilla or Strawberry?

The books are never about what you think they are about. Survivor is really about our education system because I feel, more often than not, kids are sort of taught or trained to be the best possible cogs in some big corporate machine. They're not really taught in an empowered way that they can start their own company so that they can create and run their own lives. They are sort of taught to be just good employees, to just fit in.

-Chuck Palahniuk on his book 'Survivor'.

Word. But even I can't deny that it just feels safer to live a cookie-cutter life. Find a job at a prestigious company, work hard, take out a loan to buy a house and a car, and work harder to pay the loans (plus my student's loan), work even harder when children come along, while climbing the corporate ladder to make it big to buy even bigger house and more fancy car. It all has been perfectly laid out in front of us, why bother go any other way? Just goes to show how successful whoever they are in doctrine-ating us.

Though at times, it does feel too self-indulgent to try to live out my own dreams instead of others.