Life is not a list of checkboxes that we have to tick off sequentially one after another. Got a degree? Tick. Booked a house under my name? Tick. Got married? Tick. Had Children? Tick. All this sound too cliché, too depressing. These are acts which people do under the influence of peer pressure, mimicking each other, and not willingly as a genuine choice of their own.
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
I reject most conventional wisdom.
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.
