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This is for all you country girls and small town boys. And for anyone who is somewhere dreaming they could take the leap to make a change. If you dream of getting out from where you are but don’t believe you can, this post is for you.

I was raised in upstate New York, in a small town with two stoplights. The place consists of very little: mainly obese townies, neglected property and a large amount of livestock. It’s a safe, sheltered place to keep your kids simple and out of as much trouble as possible.

It’s also a huge sandbox in which to stick ones head into.

Now that I’ve escaped, I look back with appreciation, but when I was there I thought I’d never get out. I was terrified of becoming a local, in a dead-end job, squandering my dreams because of fear of what I’d never been shown.

It wasn’t until I left that I saw it was that very environment which made me aware I had the strength to get out.

Growing up in a secluded environment offers young minds a limited view of what makes up the world. These malleable children are disillusioned about what they could do, who they could be and what possibility lies before them. Similar to children raised in an inner city, information isn’t handed out like Halloween candy, with mentors offering up direction for misguided youth. The unknown is manipulated by media or parental driven portrayals. Growth and open-mindedness is then stifled, shortening an individual’s confidence to head out into the world. And with this brings a adulthood wrought with a mere existence.

Despite this, if you’re smart enough to dream bigger than where you are, then you’re strong enough to take it on.

If a person dreams of something bigger than where or what they are, they must believe that is something that exists for them. I don’t dream of becoming a man, because frankly I have no interest in it, but women that really do want a penis sure will find a way to get one.

When I was small I wished for culture and diversity and by doing so, I was creating that future for myself. Leaving my town of two thousand people wasn’t hard work. Years later, now being where I had dreamed I’d be, I understand dreaming it was all it took.

If you want to get out of your situation, whatever it may be, the fact that you have the strength to even wish for it is proof enough to know you’re smart enough to overcome it. Recognizing inferiority is enough evidence it can and should change.

Just do it.

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Earlier this week, after finding bread poorly wrapped, I asked my lover to please make sure he put the English Muffin’s away properly or else they will go stale.

Three days later I made breakfast and went to work. Later on, I came home to a picture he’d taken that day:

6/16/08 Edit: After I posted this, I saw that I may not have been so clear. To sum it up: I gave him grief over not wrapping up the bread and a few days later I did the same thing. To point out my hypocritical behavior he took a picture of it (see above) and showed it to me. No words, no judgment.

You can’t argue with that.

Sorry guys, this post may have sucked. Good idea, bad execution.

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Someone shared this amazing idea with me today. It’s a TED Talks video and it’s an intelligent, original idea. In the video, Joshua Klein talks about how we could use a crow’s superior intelligence to benefit society rather then extinguish them.

He explains how the these animals and others like it withstand human development by adapting to the surroundings we’ve created.

Klein goes on to show surprising research that demonstrates a crow’s swift thinking skills while making their living. His intention with this was to show an alternative to population control.

Oddly, this got me thinking about our resistance and judgment of other cultures.

We snarl at crows, but it is only our skewed perception that finds their existence unnecessary.

Similarly, to us, Koreans eating dog is a big taboo, as is people eating horses. Again, this is only how we see it. Perhaps, like with the crows, it is what we don’t know rather than what we do know, that determines our points of view.

And that doesn’t seem very smart, now does it?

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