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(Late) Story Time Saturday

You said everything would be ok…

We believed what you told us.

There isn’t any point in getting upset about it now, is there. We all knew the rules were subject to change. We all allowed that to become the status quo. So why question it now? 

There was so much optimism back then, we thought we could make the world the place we dreamed.  Then we dreamed our lives away and now we’re sitting in the gutter and, while some of us manage a glimpse of the stars from time to time, there are numbered among us those who would still destroy the tiny fragments of dreams we cling to so hopelessly.

Don’t ask “what happened?” You know the answer: We did. We happened to ourselves and didn’t do a damn thing to stop it.

You said everything would be ok.  But what you never really made clear was that we had to make that choice and act accordingly. We had to make everything ok for ourselves. 

So how can we be surprised when we see the world we dreamed has faded into this world we live in? There is no-one to blame for that but ourselves.