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title: "I opt out, too"
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date: 2018-03-16
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#### “I opt out of all of the bullshit I never signed up for to begin with.”
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Photo by [Hans Eiskonen](https://unsplash.com/photos/qTxwKHZwl6M?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/stop?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)Get up.
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Go to work.
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Go home.
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Sleep.
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Repeat.
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Such a life is one of survival, not living. Maybe some real living is squeezed in around the edges.
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A snatch of meaningful human interaction on the occasional evening — here.
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A weekend away — there.
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A long holiday — once in a while.
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Scraps of life paid for by the cremation of time **nobody** can afford to waste.
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Yet we have to.
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Or *do* we?
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[**I Opt Out**
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*From this very moment forward I no longer subscribe — to your priorities, principles and pointless pursuits. I opt out…*medium.com](https://medium.com/geezer-speaks/i-opt-out-ee3b693c5bf3 "https://medium.com/geezer-speaks/i-opt-out-ee3b693c5bf3")[](https://medium.com/geezer-speaks/i-opt-out-ee3b693c5bf3)I say get *up*. I say, **wake up**.
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I say *fuck that *to all of the above.
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Fuck that to a life that isn’t.
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To a day on repeat, for all of my horribly short existence.
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Fuck that to working just to survive.
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To spending precious hours of freedom recovering from the very work that provides for.
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Fuck that to Modern Society.
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To all its materialism, celebrity ‘news’ the only ‘light’ in the mill of hate and fear.
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Fuck that to being told how to live.
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To being told to live an *un*life.
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I’ve always festered this idea, of breaking free. I never quite subscribed. Never quite fit in, because I didn’t like being told what to do. But was afraid to stand out. I still am, but my eyes are opening to the fact freedom is worth it.
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Even still, it will be a lifetime’s work. But that’s a worthy cause — better than an *un*lifetime’s work at *any* rate.
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Starting today, I will not like or dislike something on the whims of someone else.
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Starting today, I will do my level best to disregard social norms.
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Starting today, I will be the spanner in the gears of civilisation.
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Starting today, I will not let anyone tell me how I should live.
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Starting today, I consciously hit *‘unsubscribe’*** **on Society.
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I know [Brian Brewington](https://medium.com/u/b0f2a24f7463) is with me. I know that [Where Angels Fear](https://medium.com/u/6c8bcd0d1a65) will be glad of the riot. I know that [Gaëlane](https://medium.com/u/e3ddbb5fdbd5) has the hang of this already. Regardless…are *you *with me?
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Are you ready to ***live?***
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