Prom Queen
March 13, 2009
Life is belief, routine, and change.
Every moment in life is struggle, everything brings a different level of the personal challenge we each face, of continuation, of movement, and the challenge of keeping going.
The hardest part is motivation. Keeping the motivation you need to upkeep the continuation.
Self-reeducating norms, redefining your own norms. Deciding that at any given moment the next moment will be either different, or the same.
My norm is to sit, placid in front of science-fiction shows. Anything else in my life I consider to be ‘different.’ My norm used to be music and art, learning and beauty, and cultural mind expansion. All of the rest of things, now, are either extremely challenging, or overwhelmingly powerful, and in most cases of the later, unsettlelingly beautiful.
My existence is so neutral, so passive, in this way, that any piece of life I end up only ever mentally and physically gauging as extreme. Any stimuli what-so-ever has only registering as extreme, due to extreme passivity being my norm.
– A night on the town is nothing. To most.
A night on the town is different to that, to me. It’s new, it’s meaningful, it serves a purpose, it has new levels of comprehension and learning, and requires extra and inautomatic motivation from within my being somewhere. I do not organically set myself in motion.
To me, a night on the town is difficult. To me, a night on the town, can be everything.
It didn’t used to be this way. Once I was the prom queen. Murwillumbah High School, 2003 Queen of the prom. I still don’t know how I won that title.
Aw, now just git out there and enjoy a night out on the town. (Unless of course it’s good sci-fi, such as “The Outer Limits”.)
Now it only says it once
I can’t say I’ve ever seeeeen The Outer Limits, but I’ve definitely heard of it. Might have to do a little research.
The outer limits is good. It was a take off/inspired by “Twilight Zone”, but did well on it’s own.
Hi Kate – great post!
IMO, going out on the town is highly over-rated
I live 5 minutes walk from the heart of Surfers Paradise and would rather watch a sci-fi show (like Firefly, BSG, The Middleman, etc) any night than go hang out to a bar/club. Just going out and dealing with the sort of people that hang out in bars/clubs becomes very tedious. Too many guys drink to get drunk then get violent and I look the kinda guy they can “take” 
That being said, if I have a good reason to go out, like a BTUB or a GCTUB Tweetup, than a night on the town can be well worth the effort. We live in a digital age and there are now better ways to meet people than awkwardly in a bar/club, i.e. Twitter (but you know that)!
Sorry for the long comment – you just hit a chord with me