What I Think I Am vs. What I Want To Be - Public Opinion Matters
I've gone around the block and come to an undeniable truth: public opinion matters. What your friends think about you, your life, your mate, should be noted. What you do with this information is not so cut-and-dried (that's a farming term, if you didn't know.) Plan on continuing the discussion. Public opinion matters because our American society is a complex amalgam , no matter how badly certain people don't want to see it that way. You can use the metaphor macadam if the other reminds you of uncomfortable dental visits, but I sort of like the idea that there's an element blended into the mix which is unhealthy, like mercury. Macadam may be more accurate in describing America, as it's a collection of disparate objects which have settled and compressed into one collective substance which is comprised of individuals but becomes another entity in toto. Y tú también. And that's my point here: Public opinion of you helps you det...