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31 October 2008

I just wanna live life on my own terms.

post by: serena at: 13:29 | 18 comments

I prefer being told exactly what to do in every possible situation.

posted by BitterOldPunk 31 October | 13:53

Can I live your life on your terms too? I need a change...

posted by eatdonuts 31 October | 13:56

I hear "Ron Paul" is a good search term

posted by danostuporstar 31 October | 13:58

I'd rather live life on top of old smokey.

posted by crush-onastick 31 October | 14:01

I want term-life insurance that pays out for lost limbs.

posted by box 31 October | 14:10

I don't need you to worry for me cause I'm alright
I don't want you to tell me it's time to come home
I don't care what you say anymore, this is my life
Go ahead with your own life, and leave me alone

I never said you had to offer me a second chance
(I never said you had to)
I never said I was a victim of circumstance
(I never said)
I still belong, don't get me wrong
And you can speak your mind
But not on my time

posted by tr33hggr 31 October | 14:14

You get over that idea. Life tend to move you along on its own terms without bothering to ask you first.

posted by octothorpe 31 October | 14:29

You can't control what other people do/feel. You can only control what you do/feel.

posted by Melismata 31 October | 14:30

Ordinarily I abhor pasting whole sets of lyrics into threads, but I am going to make an exception here:

From all lives beginning on
We are pushed in little forms
No one asks us how we like to be
In school they teach us what to think
But everyone says different things
But they’re all convinced that
They’re the ones to see

So they keep talking and they never stop
At a certain point you give it up
So the only thing that’s left to think is this:

I want out... to live my life alone
I want out... leave me be
I want out... to do things on my own
I want out... to live my life and to be free

People tell me 'A' and 'B'
They tell me how I have to see
Things that I have seen already clear
So they push me then from side to side
They're pushing me from black to white
They're pushing 'til there’s nothing more to hear

But don’t push me to the maximum
Shut your mouth and take it home
'cause I decide the way things gonna be

There's a million ways to see the things in life
A million ways to be the fool
In the end of it, none of us is right
Sometimes we need to be alone

posted by Wolfdog 31 October | 14:32

Here, go listen to it 82 times until your ears bleed. It's always served me well.

posted by Wolfdog 31 October | 14:35

Don't dream it, be it.

posted by BoringPostcards 31 October | 15:29

i'd like to not be exhausted, sad and defeated while possibly watching yet another few years work go down the drain, but it's just too damn bad.
So what. Who cares. Fuck all.
So over it.

posted by ethylene 31 October | 17:07

I aspire to this set of terms (and conditions).

posted by danf 31 October | 17:47

I just wish *other people* would live on my terms.

posted by loiseau 31 October | 17:51

Fixed, or variable?

posted by chewatadistance 31 October | 18:20

I would like my own personal guru at my side at all times with a bullhorn.

posted by LoriFLA 31 October | 21:38

That can be arranged, LoriFLA. Do you allow doobie smoking in your home?

posted by Meatbomb 01 November | 01:16

With your skills and talents, I'd allow it.

posted by LoriFLA 01 November | 08:06

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