Sunday, May 13, 2012

Takin' it easy in Fiji

It was an average and ordinary day for Otto, he was in his lazy boy with a bowl of Captain Crunch, high as hell watching Travel Channel. A program came on about the far away islands of Fiji in the South Pacific, and immediatley Otto was completley consumed in watching the show. He watched in awe and was amazmed that such a beautiful and magnificant place existed on planet earth. The pictures he was seeing on his television were breathtaking and almoast unbelievable. The brilliant turquoise water, the perfect white sand beaches, palm trees, lush jungle, and amazing wildlife that Otto didn't even know existed. He was sold five minutes in, Fiji was the place for him. All he really wanted to do in this moment was go to Fiji, it was all he could think about. He kept imagining himself in different scenarios there. Maybe he would get a sailboat and sail throughout all of Fiji, or maybe he would reuinite with Jane and take her on a trip there, the possiblilities were only limited by Otto's imagination. He was getting unbearably excited as he watched this show and dreampt about finding himself there one day, and then commercials came on. He became entrigued by the commercials, they seemed different to him now. "Look at all these people trying to convince me to buy all this shit I won't ever need, why do we allow this? Don't most people want to be able to watch a show without having bullshit products forced in their face every ten minutes? What kind of a country is this that I live in? We live to consume shitty things that people on T.V. convince us we need. Man, fuck this, I'm moving to Fiji next chance I get.", Otto told himself. Just then a commerical came on with a very familiar face. It was Kindra Lee, Otto's next door neighbor. Otto was pleasantly suprised and thought how cool it was that he was watching someone he knew personally on T.V., until he realized she was trying to comvince him to buy fake eyelashes. Then the show about Fiji came back on and he was lost again in a world thousands of miles away.

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