Erin

“these kids in California, throwing themselves in front of trains because they can’t keep up with the expectations of their parents, the drive to succeed, the need to be seen as the best; these kids throwing themselves in front of trains because they are as smart as their parents think they are, but sad that their parents can’t see their sadness, sad because the parents are blinded by grades and awards and achievements; sad the parent’s cant see how the souls of their kids are slowly and surely dying beneath the paperwork. the parents can’t see how closely their kids walk beside the tracks when the sun sets; they don’t know how afraid their children are of being blinded the same paperwork as their parents, the paperwork that never ends, the paperwork that spans generations, the paperwork they fear will bury them, even after they are gone.”

I think the best part about this is that there was an actual academic study done to find out what music dogs preferred, they set it up by kenneling dogs and figuring out which kind of music caused them to be more relaxed in the situation, and they found out that most dogs prefer soft rock and reggae. 

i’m prepared.