Posts Tagged ‘average’

This story is about Somebody. You probably don’t know him yet. Well, he’s an average member of our modern western society. The kind of person you don’t really notice. You don’t even need to know his real name, I’ll just refer to him as “Somebody” from now on.

Somebody watched TV. That’s how he got to know the rich and beautiful, a perfect but unreal world. He didn’t really think about the things he watched so eventually he got the feeling that he was a part of that perfect world too, the feeling that he too had to be rich and beautiful.

Unfortunately, Somebody looked like an average person. A real average person, not average in terms of what you see on television. And he wasn’t rich. He just didn’t fit in this artificial world. And he didn’t like that. Actually, he didn’t like himself anymore. So he tried to adapt himself. At first, he tried to become rich.
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