Wonder

I AM ALIVE, AND FILLED WITH WONDER AND FURY. He shouted it as loud as he could; he shouted it at the sky, the earth around him and everything else in existence. I AM ALIVE, AND FILLED WITH WONDER AND FURY. Suddenly and without pretense his mind was unbound from the inhibitions of reality; It was free to wander, to explore itself, delving into the deepest reaches and darkest crevices of a being it knew very little about. From those shabby places arose the discontent of the ages: the young man knew he was unfulfilled. He knew his life was lacking, no matter what his parents or his peers or that one commercial with that one immaculate, decadent, borderline obscene thing told him. He was discontent to be sure. But more than that now; he was alive. And now he knows that his life is his own to do with as he pleases, to explore those deepest reaches and darkest crevices of a world he knows very little about.

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