Where is the revolutionary in you?

I finally saw the highly anticipated Revolutionary Road. It was great! Definitely a must see.

In hopes of not spoiling the movie for those of you who haven't seen it. I will just say the movie brings up a lot of questions, especially as I am just stepping into the realm of my "coming of age" (whatever that means, right?)

You know, we all have such high hopes of changing the world, tearing down discriminatory patriarchal social structures. We've held rallies, attended lectures, written blogs about the future- but what happens when/if we find ourselves conforming?..not necessarily a bad thing. However, I don't want to end up unhappy chasing dreams of years past, imparting those bad vibes on the one's around me. I want to keep my mystery, my passion, my randomness.

We look and we're 40 or 50 years old family, house, dog, and our once thought to be, couldn't imagine doing anything else career, is not as fulfilling as we once imagined. Instead of tearing down social structures we're tearing up memo's from our 9 to 5. Where is that revolutionary in us? How do we keep our revolutionary when we need to invest $$ into college funds, when Saturday's become filled with little league and family game nights?

When I'm 40, I still want to have my spunk. My eclectic, no-nonsense, protesting, chuck taylor wearing, 5 book per month reading, REVOLUTIONARY self! Don't you?

Favorite line of the movie "who writes these rules anyway?"

Who writes the rules your 40 yr old self will live by?

Just a thought