Monday, May 23, 2016

Nobody Ever Told Us

Nobody ever told us how many passwords we'd have to memorize.
Nobody ever told us how long to keep the tea bag in the hot water.
Nobody ever told us that the only way to avoid debt was to avoid education.
Nobody ever told us that skunks like hanging out near warm air like the kind that dryer vents expel.
Nobody ever told us how hard it'd be to diet and exercise.
Nobody ever told us that everyone gets lonely once in awhile.
Nobody ever told us to dust the cinder block window sills in the basement where the spiders collect.
Nobody ever told us a constantly running computer would keep the room much warmer.
Nobody ever told us all the answers would be online.
Nobody ever told us how to be happy.
Nobody ever told us how to love.
Nobody ever told us that the gas burners on the stove make scrambled eggs so much faster than electric and why would anyone want electric?
Nobody ever told us that the grass needs early spring crab grass treatment and late spring weed control.
Nobody ever told us that being a child involves having too little control and being an adult involves having too much.
Nobody ever told us to keep drain cleaner.
Nobody ever told us that the bullshit we mastered in school would be the same bullshit we used at work to construct an email to the boss about why the numbers don't quite add up.
Nobody ever told us how often to change the mattress.
Nobody ever told us that the calculus would be lost like the old toys you had as a kid.
Nobody ever told us there would be a vast emptiness when the think pieces stopped being written about your generation and moved on to the younger crowd even if they were never good or positive.
Nobody ever told us how it is to feel old.

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