Milestones

Milestones

Finish school?  Check!
Leave home?  Check!
Get married?  Check!
Buy a home?  Check!
Have kids?  Check!

Congratulations!  You are a REAL ADULT now!
All right?

All wrong!

Meeting milestones isn't living, so don't tell me they're the same.
I'm the kind of gal who lives out loud, so I won't play your game.

Some boxes for me to check off won't show the kind of life I lead
Or exactly all the things that happen for me to get what I need.

And all your comments on milestones have such a hollow ring
If you're working eighty hours to get by, a life milestone won't mean a thing.

Or if you escaped a relationship that had withstood abuse
Having the home, marriage, and family really won't serve much use.

Or if you're so in love and thinking that getting married would be great,
You can't check the box if they won't let you marry in your state.

There's a point where you know that society's rules are wrong,
At which point you realize it's for the best if you didn't go along.

There's so many more like me out there, but I can just speak for me alone.
I'm going to live my life the way I want and tear up this list of milestones.

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