We have to because we must

Sometimes, when I hear or read statements along the lines of:  ”Real is better than numb, so we have to keep walking, we have to keep the ground beneath us,” it makes me want to scream out loud.   It conjures images of the garish, prefabricated houses situated in overbearing housing developments that litter the outskirts of most American cities.  No one really wants to live in them, but they do because everyone else does.  Or maybe they do because the development is located conveniently just minutes away from a train station and a decent enough school district, and features one grassy plot of land out back.  It’s lazy.

If anyone has the luxury of choosing real over numb, then they’re better off than many, many people.  The worst is when people don’t realize this, which, more often than not, seems to be the case.