2011-08-11

Keep Swinging

Let's imagine a playground and you're there but you don't want to be. You're too old for a playground or something and so it feels bad being there. Or you fell off a teeter-totter when you were a kid and had to get stitches and you've hated playgrounds ever since. You can even make up your own reason for not liking playgrounds. The main idea is that in this imaginary situation you hate playgrounds. Screw that swing-set. Goddamn those monkey bars. The playground is shitty and it all sucks. But you're there, for whatever reason. Maybe because you're waiting. Maybe because it feels like you have to be. I don't know why you're at the playground if you don't want to be, but the point is that you are. If someone were to text you and ask you where you were at and what you were doing you might reply "I'm at the playground". I don't know who you are but you might be the type of person who would include a "fml" or maybe a "get me out of here". But either way you'd express that you weren't happy with where you are. But the idea is that you're stuck. This is imaginary so even though it seems highly unlikely that you'd get stuck at a playground I'm just going to let it be. We're pretending. My point is obvious and it's this: Play on the goddamn monkey bars anyway and stop cursing the swing set.

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