Influences

Don't forget: How you came home for lunch some monday morning, and you wanted was to accomplish as much math homework online as you could, but (of course) you ended up just eating, and wasting the little time you had. You're standing in the cold kitchen getting snacks and your mom is hovering, you say nothing which is completely the usual and she begins in again. "YOUR BROTHER HATES HIGH SCHOOL" you don't want to be having this conversation, not now, not ever. "YOU HATE COLLEGE" you regret mentioning in the past any complaints of my every day schedule "AND I HATE WORKING" you just want to reply that everyone on this earth hates work and school and to get over it and go away "THIS IS OUR LIVES, THIS ISN'T A DRESS REHEARSAL..." The rest became a trailing stream of cliche phrases and statements about how short life is, "YOU ONLY DO THIS ONCE, SHOULDN'T WE BE DOING WHAT WE WANT TO" She refers to herself as a child and it's just about the first thing you honestly agree with at this point. "I'VE BEEN WORKING SINCE I WAS A TEENAGER" That's where you chime in about everyone working their whole lives, and inevitably it gets you absolutely nowhere. As if life is so simple that you can be exactly what you want, later, taxes and money come to mind. She delves in even deeper, and you're blocking it out like a distracting television while you're trying to read. Later, you realize this is why music was playing from the living room when it hasn't in nearly a year. "I'M SICK OF WORKING, I'VE BEEN WORKING MY WHOLE LIFE" in the moment, for more than one reason, escape comes to your mind. your head is in the refrigerator as she plans a vacation she doesn't need "I DON'T MIND GOING ALONE". Your putting a snack into a Zip-lock bag "WHAT ARE YOU DOING WITH THOSE?" it's the rhetorical questions that irk you even more.