Reject the basic assumptions of civilization, especially the importance of material possessions.

I can become someone else, not out of pressure and desperation, but merely because a new life sounds fun or interesting or joyful.

The girl's lover was gone, but his shadow was still there.

I'm only confrontational with my friends.

We live and we die and anything else is just a delusion.

Picture the moment when your mom and dad first saw you as something other than a pretty, tiny version of them. You as them, but improved. Better educated. Innocent. Then picture when you stopped being their dream.

Game shows are designed to make us feel better about the random, useless facts that are all we have left of our education.