Icarus

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Icarus is flying too close to the sun

and Icarus's life it has only just begun

it's just begun

I'm privileged. I've experienced many things a lot of 22 year olds have never experienced. I happen to live in a family that resembles the luxury you see in the television show Gossip Girl.

I love my life and I know I am beyond lucky...but sometimes I feel very chained down.  

My mother freaks out if the word "freaking, fricken" or anything else along that line comes out of my mouth.

Swearing is a big no.

When I am going somewhere I have to tell where I am going, what I am doing,  who I am going with, and what time I'll be back. If I am not back at the time I said I'd be..they freak out.

I have lost friends because they say my Parents are way too over protective.

In the end I'd rather have over protective parents than parents who don't care at all.

It only shows that they truly care about you, and want the best for you.

Yet there are days where I want to fly away and be on my own so badly.

Imagine a bird in a cage..and suddenly the bird figures out how to open the door..yet it knows if it flies away there will be consequences.  

What does it do?

It flies anyway. It might get burned a few times...but how else is it going to learn?

Living beyond your years
      Acting out all their fears
          You feel it in your chest

       Your hands protect the flames
           From the wild winds around you

   Standing on the cliff face
       Highest fall you'll ever grace
                    It scares me half to death

                                  Look out to the future
  But it tells you nothing
      So take another breath

                               

  

Besides Pompeii this song is the most powerful to my imagination.

You can sense he's about to jump off a cliff

You can see the fall

You can savor the insanity of his madness and aching to fly free

I want to go after my dreams...

but my parents don't like the idea of me being in Europe at all.

I know who I want to become...and it might be hard but I'll have to defy their expectations in order to get where I would like to be someday.

 You put up your defenses when you leave

you leave because you're certain of who you want to be

You're putting up your armor when you leave and 

            you leave because you're  certain of who you

                           want 

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If you don't know the story of Icarus, I highly recommend you check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hdp_iMTEXzs