Sol's Random Stories

You didn't know, like everyone didn't know beforehand, how hard it's going to be. How bleak you'll feel at certain times when the universe makes other plans. When your daydreams aren't included. Then, you'll wonder how it all got so goddammit serious, so cutthroat, so unfriendly. It seemed to all happen over one very bad weekend, that fast. In fact, you didn't know anything could be so fast, like the rent. What? Just paid it! Oh, that was last time. But, it was only a few short weeks ago... The slow charade of childhood lulls all into that false space of sweet security, perfect cubbyhole of no big worries, no big deal responsibility. We're gleefully not in charge of ourselves, if we're lucky to have a loving family. But now, everything is a big deal. No one mentions how Alice in Wonderland then has to work like a fool to survive, no lovely fantasy about that. You didn't know, no one mentions it. The future more accurately described would scare yo...

After all, what's in a name? It's just words. Why give it much thought? It will still be defined by its attributes be it a person or a nation, so then a name is just complimentary or a contradiction. Consider our country's given name. Certainly, there were other possibilities. Such as the Common States, except that they're not. Or, the Similar States, but that's never been true. Or, the Federated States, except free people will not be centralized. Or, the Independent States, which of course lacks any mutual support. Apparently, our country's final name describes a more ideal nation as yet unrealized by the errant and unreliable cooperation between the various regions. Nonetheless, we are the imperfectly United States, the grand experiment, still discovering our own liberty.