And my knee-jerk response was “no, you should hear my friends talk about their lives–”
And it made me remember something.
Back in high school, my IB class did a lock-in– where the group of students gets locked into one part of the school overnight on a weekend– and after junk food and video games lost their appeal, we got to talking.
Only I didn’t really know anything about almost any of them. They were all friendly enough, but I kept to myself for the most part, so we didn’t have much to talk about once standard small talk ran out.
So I asked one of the other people sitting with me: “what’s your story?”
Your life story.
And he told me. Sixteen years or so condensed into maybe a half hour. And it was the most fascinating life I could have imagined: the places he’d been, the things he’d done, the experiences that defined him. It boggled my mind.
When he finished and turned the question around to me, I thought mine sounded really boring in comparison, but he listened open-mouthed to the entire thing. Other kids were gathering around us by now, listening in. And when I finished mine, I turned to another one of them and asked the question to them.
And just like before, my mind was blown. A completely different life, completely different focal points, defining experiences, goals the likes of which were deserving of an anime. And the same happened with the next person we asked, and the next.
By the time each one of us had finished telling their story, it was time to go home for the morning. The video games had been abandoned hours ago. None of us had slept. We were too caught up in each other’s lives.
ah yes, Galavant, the musical comedy fantasy show with bangers such as
“Local King Realises He Has Zero Useful Skills”
“Gay Bar Anthem About Undressing An Oblivious Straight Guy”
“The Ruling Class Sucks, How About We Poison All Of Them”
“The Most Scathing Critique Of Representative Democracy You Will Ever Come Across”
“Yelling About How You’re Going To Very Sneakily Kill Your Brother”
“Pirate Shanty: Run Aground Edition”
“Disney Princess Love Interest Duet Except The Lyrics Are About How You Barely Tolerate Each Other” (twice)
and of course
“A New Season AKA Suck It Cancellation Bear” which is the actual real title of that song and cannot be improved upon through humorous description
also have I mentioned that all of these are composed by actual real Disney composer Alan Menken, of Little Shop of Horrors, Tangled, and basically the entire Disney Renaissance fame, and wow do they sound like it
Please enjoy the musical stylings of Joshua Sasse, Timothy Omundson, Hugh Bonneville, Mallory Jansen, Vinnie Jones, Karen David, Luke Youngblood, and the rest of the gang on “A New Season AKA Suck It Cancellation Bear”
God, I love tumblr, its the only place where we can get a philosophical analysis of why divorcees crumble and it was in the tags. Like if not for the screenshot, 90% of people would miss this wisdom
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