Want to live

The names of every American President, and their period of office. Every element and its reaction to every noble gas. Evolutionary adaptations of the Australian Hopping Mouse. The history of the construction of paper. The physics of espresso machine. Feature articles, essays, day in, day out. I have written books of notes. I have spent hours of revision. I have heard, re-written, absorbed. I have regurgitated. I have forgotten the smell of the ocean. I haven’t ridden a bike in years. I haven’t travelled. My world is small, my mind expanded to its edge. As far as the stock market and foreign policy. But I have never seen these distant lands. Despite the millions of JPEGs delivered to me. Someone’s experience, digitally imprinted, computerized. Second hand. Force fed a hand-me-down experience. My life planned already. Commute, contribute, consume. I want to taste chilli in every country. I want to hear every language. I want to dance on every beach. I want to Go-Kart. I want to live my own life. not watch others

Author's Note

just how i feel

Reviews

[Kathryn Star, Shine!]

Intelligently wrote however than you downed it to a simple way. From our present to the forgotton past, to end it in, "I want to taste chilli in every country.
I want to hear every language.
I want to dance on every beach.
I want to Go-Kart.
I want to live my own life.
not watch others"

Interesting to read about our technology that refuses us to go out and be ourselves. WOW! Thanks for sharing, it's brilliant! ks

[Hayame]

Keep up the good work.