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Trainspotting: choose life

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Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career.
Choose a fucking great lifestyle. Choose living in a big city, spending your living wage on bagels, parties and culture. Choose Pret. Choose giving to charity. Choose talking to strangers. Choose feeling safe when your doorbell rings at night time. Choose composure when the train stops between stations. Choose the power to express your opinions. Choose peace protests and democracy. Choose an end to racism. Choose city migration, ethnic minorities, resettling the displaced and embracing their influence on
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society.
Choose a family. Choose lack of sleep, lack of social life, money worries. Choose city exodus and the quiet life. Choose knowing your children’s future will be less fucked up than your present. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, but knowing you took the chance to turn it around and leave a world that’s worth living in, worth fighting for; knowing your kids and your kids’ kids will look back and shake their head at what a fucked up world your generation managed to create.
Choose their future. Choose their life. You owe them that
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Trainspotting: choose life

- 28 Aug 17

Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career.

Choose a fucking great lifestyle. Choose living in a big city, spending your living wage on bagels, parties and culture. Choose Pret. Choose giving to charity. Choose talking to strangers. Choose feeling safe when your doorbell rings at night time. Choose composure when the train stops between stations. Choose the power to express your opinions. Choose peace protests and democracy. Choose an end to racism. Choose city migration, ethnic minorities, resettling the displaced and embracing their influence on society.

Choose a family. Choose lack of sleep, lack of social life, money worries. Choose city exodus and the quiet life. Choose knowing your children’s future will be less fucked up than your present. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, but knowing you took the chance to turn it around and leave a world that’s worth living in, worth fighting for; knowing your kids and your kids’ kids will look back and shake their head at what a fucked up world your generation managed to create.

Choose their future. Choose their life. You owe them that much.

 

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