Unchaper*pwnd*!

"Good music and good food are two things which it might be best for me to experience alone since both seem to effectively reduce me to an unsocialized wriggly mass."

I WENT OUT IN PUBLIC YESTERDAY

HAAHAHAHAHAHAHA !!!

We fooled them all

Me and one of my friends

We went out for tea and thai food. And nobody stopped us. Nobody asked if we were authorized to decide what we wanted to eat or to order food for ourselves. Nobody questioned whether we were qualified to sit in a booth or if we'd passed the required exams to carry money in our pockets. We did not take any special Tech courses on conducting ourselves in public, what makes good conversation, or how much of the food to eat off of our plate. And when we left a tip, we calculated 15% just like we'd seen other people do and it worked. Nobody asked for our identification or curfew passes. Nobody stopped us.
And we ate all the food on our plates and enjoyed it so much that we wiggled.

And then we realized that we didn't know if anyone else had been approved to go out alone in public either. It just sort of happened to us. And maybe it happened that way for them, too. It could be that there are millions, maybe even billions of people who don't have non-chaperoned conduct certifications. I know that people are people, and I've learned by now that parents are humans and don't always just know everything. They do their best. But I think I'm going to start realizing more concretely just how flexible this world is because nobody actually knows. And they can't revoke my certification because they don't have any either. Nobody is certified.

And my biased opinion of the moment is that
people who make you feel like you have to be certified at something in order to be acceptable (I guess it depends what exactly it's about. And being socially acceptable is different than being regular-acceptable)
probably don't enjoy their food enough to let it make them wiggle
or feel music deeply enough to lose their human voice before they have to resurface
or know how warm and soft people are beneath the frame they try to fit

If you meet people like this,
I think you should give them a flower
or a small origami animal
or a nice picture
or cookies

actually. Everyone should get these things from time to time.



and yesterday was beautiful