The excitement of his arrival is over. People go about their daily lives. Never utilizing time properly nor seizing the day, everything is mundane. Here the day is special when the pets do something clever for once.

The purpose of life is work.
The purpose of work is money.
The purpose of money is artificial happiness.
The purpose of happiness is to ease the never ending suffering that is life.

Being here for too long is depressing. It lacks ambition, reason and strife. All of the undesirable traits that have embodied these vague faces causes a deer in the headlights scenario.

Awe turns into conformity.

I don’t know what I’m doing. All that I do know is that I need a change. There is no way I can go on like this. This is not working for me. But can I really just pick up and move? After striving for independence for so long? It’s almost Christmas. I’ll wait until then to make my decision. Since, I’m going home anyway, I will just see what it’s like being back there for a little bit. I haven’t been home for 10 years. You always go visit a place before you move there right? This is different. I’ve already lived there. Everything I left behind is still there. Right the way I left it, only a little rusted. There are reasons I left, there are reasons I haven’t been back. There are reasons.

So, there is this guy Johnny. Johnny is full of life, he’s vibrant, illicit, and unexpectedly humble. All he’s ever wanted from life is to be able to enjoy it. Other then that Johnny wishes to be left alone. Now, there have been a number of times when he’s been unable to enjoy life for one reason or another. For instance, a few months back there was a death in the family. Johnny’s always known deep down in his heart that if there was any point in time where his family needed him to move back home, he would. If only to help out.

There is also this lingering thought floating in his mind. One that, despite what is required to take place for him to return home, he recognises he just wants to be needed. And if he was to return home, that would make him feel needed. This selfish thought has always rattled his perception of himself. Why can`t he just be happy where he is right now?

Johnny doesn’t know how to enjoy life. He doesn’t know how to get the one thing that he wants from it. This tale is about Johnny returning home. Nothing has happened that would require him to return but to Johnny that doesn’t matter right now. To Johnny, going home is what he needs.