Cog in the machine

the mans daily life

The man wakes up and finds that his TV had been stabbed 67 times, and wondered who would do such a thing to such a nice TV. He walks to his kitchen and eats some cereal. His cereal consumption felt gratuitous and utterly useless. After eating his cereal, he walks outside to his car. Its a beat up Oldsmobile from the 90's. If there were any paint before he got it, it sure is gone now.

He walks to it, opens the door, slams it and drives to work. At work, he numbs himself and goes about his day like a drone that's only purpose is to serve and die. His body may look like its just working mindlessly but deep down inside he wonders what brought him to this point. He was top of his class at Yale, and he got an internship at a highly prestigious company. Now he was no better than a lowly code-monkey. He felt that it was all for nothing.

His thoughts wander to his land of fairy-tales and happiness while ,on the outside, he's getting yelled at by his boss. On his way home, he gets a burger and fries.

At home he mindlessly picks up the remote and clicks the button not realizing that he stabbed the TV. He blatantly throws his remote out the window and goes to bed.