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If LB were a normal person
Topic Started: Jan 1 2016, 03:21 AM (56 Views)
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What would I be doing now if I had been a normal person? You know a 10:00pm - 07:00am sleeper. A worker, a consumer, someone that just believed whatever government religion and Big Business wanted them to believe sort of person.
I guess I'd be a lot like Blu. That is not intended to be a condemnation of Blu but I see Blu as being very straight. There is nothing wrong with being vanilla but it is not the life for me.
So create a whole backstory for me if you can. Where am I living? What job do I have? Am I in a relationship or not? Am I a success or a failure?
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Normal Option 1

Some kids hate living with their parents, so once they turn 16, they look for a job either at a supermarket, factory, office or restaurant - some take two or three part time jobs if they can't get a full time job. That's perfectly normal. If they earn £400 or more a month, then they rent a flat. They meet up with friends, meet people, date, marry, have kids, get a house, share a place of their own (possibly having a mortgage). In the meantime, at the supermarket, factory or low wage job they started with, they've progressed on to management roles or had an entirely different career change as a policeman or business owner.

Normal Option 2

Some kids don't mind living with their parents and/or have a career in mind, such as being a GP, an architect or a forum administrator. So they stay in sixth form until they're 18 (while living with their parents) and then take a university degree until they're 21, usually living at the university with other students. After graduation, some students continue to live together and rent a place, the students that have worked hard and made good choices usually get a full time job in their chosen career while some (usually Arts students) just proceed to Normal Option 1 (but 5 years behind) . Some move back in with their parents (with a degree and a whopping great debt) and may not move out until their mid or even late 20s, at which point (see Normal Option 1).

Normal Option 3

Some kids join the military. By the time they leave it (mid 20s, early 30s), they normally have enough money under their belts to buy a house or live comfortably for a while. The military should have instilled a good sense of discipline and efficiency in them making them very employable. Ex-military personnel are usually physically fit and attractive, with great stories to tell the opposite sex, so they will probably go on to have families, not to mention a nice retirement pot waiting for them.

Normal Option 4

Some kids have their adventures and move back to their parents' house with a spouse and two kids. It becomes the family home. The kids work and the grandparents look after their kids. Eventually, the grandparents turn very old and one of them dies. Even though the house technically belongs to the living grandparent, the family act as though it's their house and the old mother-in-law or father-in-law is in the way. The surviving grandparent grows even older and suffers health problems, so the kids now in their 40s put them in a home or buy a little flat for them somewhere. In most cases though, the massive family lives in peace.





LB, for your pretend life, I'm giving you option 2. :goofy:
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Hmmmmmmmmmmmm.
"If you want to travel the Way of Buddhas and Zen masters, then expect nothing, seek nothing, and grasp nothing."
Dogen

"I am the vine,ye are the branches: He that abideth in me and I in him,the same bringeth forth
much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing."

John 15:5

“Here is the test of truth: anything that makes you weak, physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison, there is no life in it – it cannot be true.”
- Swami Vivekananda

"God plus mind is you. You minus mind is God."
Swami Satchitananda

"Do not follow the ideas of others, but learn to listen to the voice within yourself. Your body and mind will become clear and you will realize the unity of all things."
Dogen




















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