Live in Arizona . Live in a ranch with no attic . Can confirm that house has near to no insulation . Better hope those windows are north facing . <| sep |> This post is shit <| sep |> Well to be fair , last week they did say that this episode wasn ' t really about cars . <| sep |> I agree with both commenters here . Your writing is fluid and evocative , but at the end your using it for what feels like little more than a rant . So , let me start by asking what your purpose here is . If your purpose is to just get a critique if your writing then I have a could of suggestions . Overall , like I said , your writing is good . You use the idea of fading into the background and the color grey to solid effect . I might pare back one iteration of each , just to give the writing a little air , but your point is well made . You use lists a couple of times here , and that both helps and hurts . Having an extended stream of examples in a piece about falling into anonymity among a constant line of faces is fitting . That said , you can only rely on a device once in such a short piece . Doing it twice makes the point of the first one almost fall into the background itself . Overall , the writing is good . The style stands well by itself and it ' ll be useful in more purposeful writings . If you ' re looking for a critique on context , then you have quite a bit of work to do here . The idea of us falling into mediocrity while believing we are unique little butterflies isn ' t an original one . You ' re going to have to do a great deal of delving into the current politics of living and a lot of study in existential and nihilistic philosophies to even begin to touch on ideas that will help make this a somewhat original idea . I ' m not saying this to be rude , I ' m telling you this so you ' ll know what you ' re going to be looking at if you want this to be a topic that you intend to dwell on . In its purest form , it ' s already on just about every single person ' s mind , whether or not they know it or not . Putting that into words that are both original and meaningful is a huge task . Just be aware of that .