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Work.
My day off!
So I'd like to address Daniel's post, and comment on a sentiment I hear EVERYDAY from my coworkers.
You're 20. You're flat broke. You work for someone who makes unreal amounts of cash, straight to the pocket, and does little to nothing. I work for people who talk like drugged out psychics about the kinds of BOWLS we use, and don't know JACK CRAP about how you manage to swap out 185 degree soup in 1foot by 1foot space without getting(or giving) second degree burns. They discuss funny emails and office politics, and you sweat. You spend every dime you make on rent and electric and bills, and there's none left over for insurance on your car--and insurance for yourself? Forget it! That's not fair! Why's he/she get that when I have this? They didn't go to college, or maybe they did and you did too! It's cruel, and they hate you and they want to keep you down, right?
No, it's called work. You bust ass, you keep a roof over your head. It's not that bad, and you don't have to be upset because it's hard, or some kid's ball is bigger than yours.
Besides, I find it ironic that we in this country whine about working where we have to wash dishes, mop floors, and dig holes, when we drive our cars home to shower freely and change into clean clothes, and eat food stockpiled in our kitchens, and watch tv or do drugs, because we live without fear for our lives. We bitch because there isn't enough time in our days between work and our drugs and our drinking and our hobbies and all the sleep we decide to have to find the guy who hands out the meaning of our lives. We decide our blessings are curses, and damn ourselves to disappointment or despair.
But remember, anything you have is just the OVERCLASS trying to keep you satiated by throwing you a bone--don't take that shit! Bite the hand that feeds you, starve yourself when you are offered food, and hold yourself hostage to a world that can survive without you--it's not like there are people you mean the world to! Let's never be happy with what we have, let's be discontent.
There's no solution offered in the idea that "THE UPPER CLASS IS KEEPING ME IN THE LOWER CLASS WHERE LIFE SUCKS". Besides, that is to say that being upper class is great, and the only difference is how much money the two have. I don't care--upper, lower, it's not about how much money you have. You can be just as miserable if you have everything.
Look at America--we DID have everything, and now we ARE miserable. Suicide, Infant Mortality, Drug Use, Family Violence, Solitude, and Faithlessness. You don't have to fight for OR against the material world, you either choose to live in it, or not. But if you are fighting for or against it, you make it stronger.
I wonder if it's something everybody must go through, or if it's something that only some people manage--but I am deeply hoping that everyone will rise above all this crap and just eat, drink, be happy, enjoy the work of your hands, put all of your efforts into whatever you find your hands doing, and be grateful for every day, find your passions, love someone, and don't act like you won't one day get old and die. And I didn't hear that from some "underclass" being "held down", I actually read it from King Solomon, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the history of our race.
Just take Arnold Schwarzenegger's advice--STOP WHINING.
Eamon
RELATED NOTE: I think sometime between ages 16 and 22, everyone should be required to go to a nursing home or just some old guys' house and hang out with them on a regular basis. Because MOST of what I hear from people my age sounds like they don't understand that
1. You will grow out of it. Whatever it is, you will likely grow out of it.
2. Your life will get hard, but that doesn't make it not worth living.
3. Being able to bend over to pick up a penny is a talent you won't have for long.
4. Your life goes by very fast unless you are really present for every moment.
5. Living only for yourself makes you miserable in the end, when you just might find yourself alone.
My day off!
So I'd like to address Daniel's post, and comment on a sentiment I hear EVERYDAY from my coworkers.
You're 20. You're flat broke. You work for someone who makes unreal amounts of cash, straight to the pocket, and does little to nothing. I work for people who talk like drugged out psychics about the kinds of BOWLS we use, and don't know JACK CRAP about how you manage to swap out 185 degree soup in 1foot by 1foot space without getting(or giving) second degree burns. They discuss funny emails and office politics, and you sweat. You spend every dime you make on rent and electric and bills, and there's none left over for insurance on your car--and insurance for yourself? Forget it! That's not fair! Why's he/she get that when I have this? They didn't go to college, or maybe they did and you did too! It's cruel, and they hate you and they want to keep you down, right?
No, it's called work. You bust ass, you keep a roof over your head. It's not that bad, and you don't have to be upset because it's hard, or some kid's ball is bigger than yours.
Besides, I find it ironic that we in this country whine about working where we have to wash dishes, mop floors, and dig holes, when we drive our cars home to shower freely and change into clean clothes, and eat food stockpiled in our kitchens, and watch tv or do drugs, because we live without fear for our lives. We bitch because there isn't enough time in our days between work and our drugs and our drinking and our hobbies and all the sleep we decide to have to find the guy who hands out the meaning of our lives. We decide our blessings are curses, and damn ourselves to disappointment or despair.
But remember, anything you have is just the OVERCLASS trying to keep you satiated by throwing you a bone--don't take that shit! Bite the hand that feeds you, starve yourself when you are offered food, and hold yourself hostage to a world that can survive without you--it's not like there are people you mean the world to! Let's never be happy with what we have, let's be discontent.
There's no solution offered in the idea that "THE UPPER CLASS IS KEEPING ME IN THE LOWER CLASS WHERE LIFE SUCKS". Besides, that is to say that being upper class is great, and the only difference is how much money the two have. I don't care--upper, lower, it's not about how much money you have. You can be just as miserable if you have everything.
Look at America--we DID have everything, and now we ARE miserable. Suicide, Infant Mortality, Drug Use, Family Violence, Solitude, and Faithlessness. You don't have to fight for OR against the material world, you either choose to live in it, or not. But if you are fighting for or against it, you make it stronger.
I wonder if it's something everybody must go through, or if it's something that only some people manage--but I am deeply hoping that everyone will rise above all this crap and just eat, drink, be happy, enjoy the work of your hands, put all of your efforts into whatever you find your hands doing, and be grateful for every day, find your passions, love someone, and don't act like you won't one day get old and die. And I didn't hear that from some "underclass" being "held down", I actually read it from King Solomon, one of the wealthiest, most powerful men in the history of our race.
Just take Arnold Schwarzenegger's advice--STOP WHINING.
Eamon
RELATED NOTE: I think sometime between ages 16 and 22, everyone should be required to go to a nursing home or just some old guys' house and hang out with them on a regular basis. Because MOST of what I hear from people my age sounds like they don't understand that
1. You will grow out of it. Whatever it is, you will likely grow out of it.
2. Your life will get hard, but that doesn't make it not worth living.
3. Being able to bend over to pick up a penny is a talent you won't have for long.
4. Your life goes by very fast unless you are really present for every moment.
5. Living only for yourself makes you miserable in the end, when you just might find yourself alone.