...heh. Your accent's gonna be anything but posh then, surely? d: And I may have explained myself wrongly somewhere - I didn't ever leave England; I came to it. I live in Manchester now, haha, but I used to live in the south. Well, I say I 'used to' very loosely. I do have a home in the south but I've not been back for... must be nearing a year and a half now. I came up here as a student but it's pretty much turned into full-on home at this stage. I'd definitely say I live in Manchester rather than elsewhere now.
It's less really that I've strong views on particular things (not that I haven't - hello, gun control!), but rather more that some wider thoughts on life and the world in general always end up weighing in pretty heavily. In general I guess I kinda feel like we take ourselves and societal constructs way too seriously; I guess the way I feel sometimes is that we have a tendency to talk about irrelevant stuff as if it matters, totally unaware of the fact that it is truly irrelevant.
We talk so much about employment and money and grades and success as if in the long term we're something special and when we're gone, our employment status and how much money we had and what grades we got and how successful we were will actually mean anything at all. We invest so much into these things that I think nearly everyone can say that at some point in their lives, they've become totally dominating. Don't get me wrong; I'm at uni, I care about how I do, I have a job because like it or not I need money, but I don't pour my life into those kinda things. It just doesn't seem worth it to me.
The way we think of life is so linear in my eyes; we're born, we go to school, we use what we learn at school to get a job, we work for ages, we retire and then we can finally take some time to ourselves. But I really feel like that shouldn't be how things work, that our lives aren't just these paths of linear events which all start and end the same for everyone despite how 'unique' we all are. I feel like the whole end goal of getting a good job, a nice house, maybe a family, shouldn't be anything more than a suggestion. The world is able to accommodate so much more than that and I feel like the only way to really live in it, is to go wherever life takes you totally irrespectively of what's assumed of you. When you've got this non-linear idea of how life should be working, you start to find more and more that you just look at things and think "...what? really?" and there are so many such well-established opinions and ideas out there that you just can't work with. Not that you can't accept them or be okay with them, but you can't agree with them or take them on-board. or maybe im just always high idek