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Are we bound just by commonality? Do I just keep people around me that validate my own ideals.  My vote, my laws, my rules, my people. Is that how we mean societal goals? Is my reality triumphant when I'm validated? And to be validated I keep like minded people around? I should join that group that likes the same things as I. Start the coalition that agrees with my values and thoughts. I dont have the energy to think otherwise, it's not like I'm wrong. All the people I hang out with agree. If I changed my mind I'd be outcasted, lose my friends, my community. I cant be on the outside, plus we're all in unison, we all agree, we're right and we're not willing to listen to someone outside of our group with their own agenda.

Wake up, move, routine day in and day out. I guess I must, practice makes perfect. Practice, practice, practice, practice living... Day in and day out. Slide into my bed like a timecard. Then a noise, a jingling set of keys, like lights on the side of a freeway and I can't help but slow down to look. Something different from the routine, an escape, it slows down the... Routine, practice, right back into it. Don't lose focus. The same begins to be second nature, numb, the same? It's hard to tell now. Am I insane if I think that doing the same thing every day will cause a different outcome? Or do I need to do something different to be better? Then that light again, the noise so unfamiliar yet gratifying. I tugs at me to see what is on the other side, perhaps it's the difference I'm looking for, the next step hidden in the outside of my routine path. My norm, my safe place. The escape. Perhaps that's all it is, an escape from the routine, the ice cream I shouldn...