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Tomorrow

Tomorrow "People scared of change but you'll find me deep in the cushion" - Soul Food II Yesterday once more. The Carpenters, 1985. My first memory of this song was many moons ago when I watched Open Season, a goofy computer-animated movie with anthropomorphic animals centralizing around themes of leaving home and embracing the alienated outside. Like all good protagonists, Elliot and Boog struggle to comprehend their very contrasting mindsets - having grown up and exposed to two fundamentally opposing realities both prime characters view the essence of existence differently. A two frog, two well situation.  See I have always had an issue with this proverb because the frog had no say in his unfortunate birthplace, and consequently a constrained upbringing. An endless sky bottlenecked by fate, blurred visions of the great vastness. Is it then justified to fault the abandoned amphibian, for the world moved on without him. Is his myopic mentality a self-inflicting shackle wh...