Editing DRYH: Legacy - 02 (section)

==Five Questions==
'''WHAT'S BEEN KEEPING YOU AWAKE?''' The gig economy. It's hard to make ends meet without hustling every minute. I hold down three jobs - not that my family would consider them jobs - as a fast food delivery driver, ebay seller, and freelance essay writer, and it just about keeps a roof over my head. It's worth it to be free of their expectations.

'''WHAT JUST HAPPENED TO YOU?''' was heading to the post office after a night up writing essays about the three stages of backward design, and epistemological analysis of the concept of foundationalism, when this idiot in a van ran a red light and came right at me. I knew I was dead. Next thing I know the van slams sideways into a lamppost, like it had been hit by a truck. Driver was dead on impact.

'''WHAT'S ON THE SURFACE?''' Depends who you ask. Most people see a cheerful fidgetty guy in his early twenties, who's tall and thin in a way that looks perpetually underfed. My family would be mortified by my spiked blonde hair, eyeliner, and purple nails. 

'''WHAT LIES BENEATH?''' I was brought up in a family obsessed with appearances, to be respectable, always smiling, always creating the best impression. People thought I was an airhead coasting on Daddy's money. They've no fucking idea how hard it is, how tiring, to have to be ''on'' all the time. My father has a flock of lawyers on retainer. I used to dream he sent them after me to take me back, like that Goya etching. 

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'''WHAT IS YOUR PATH?''' The path I'm supposed to follow is one paved with expectations. I'm supposed to become a doctor or a lawyer or a politician. Hook up with some perfect girl, have perfect children. Be respectable. Fuck that. I'll forge my own path, even if it's through the Mad City.
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