Life is not a list of checkboxes that we have to tick off sequentially one after another. Got a degree? Tick. Booked a house under my name? Tick. Got married? Tick. Had Children? Tick. All this sound too clichΓ©, too depressing. These are acts which people do under the influence of peer pressure, mimicking each other, and not willingly as a genuine choice of their own.
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
I reject most conventional wisdom.
My religion centers in different areas than what's considered conventional religion.
I have an instinctual distrust of conventional happy endings.
Conventional show-biz savvy held that Americans hated to be the objects of satire.