Greetings dear readers and birdies! My apologies for the extended absence. I do believe my job is trying to kill me, and only recently have I been able to dig my way out from under all of the work and get back to you all! We've got a lot of catching up to do, so strap in.
Like I said, I do believe my job is trying to kill me, but I'm not gonna let them. The workload has increased to levels that are essentially unmanageable--for one person anyway. What's worse is that my caretaker aka boss is particularly tightly wound these days. If I didn't know better, I'd think he was on some of the best speed money can buy.
As I watch him zip-lining around the office, I can't help but feel sorry for him, because I'm pretty sure he wasn't born this way; he was created. He was created out of the general insanity that is Corporate America. It's hard to manage that many humans and that much data. Pretty soon it all becomes a massive dragon, chasing its own tail, scorching itself in the process.
My biggest hope for myself and all of you, is to one day enter a career where I have control over what my hands, heart, and mind are doing, all day long. When you don't, and if you aren't right now, you, me, and everyone else are essentially...
Showing posts with label psychopaths. Show all posts
Showing posts with label psychopaths. Show all posts
Saturday, June 9, 2012
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Politics
There was a point in time when I was very passionate about politics. I would allow myself to get all riled up and uptight about the goings-ons in the world.
Not anymore.
If you haven't figured it out already, both world and national politics are farkakte, and we are all essentially fucked.
We are fucked because the world leaders are basically a bunch of adult-sized teenagers, hell-bent on having their own way. Cooperation and negotiation might as well be four-letter-words. Not only are our leaders immature, they are also insane. This is not a winning combination. Much like the religious freaks who bitch about what kind of exercise you participate in and what kind of clothes you wear, our political leaders don't even deserve a bird classification. If we all had good sense, we would fire every last one of them and bring in some fresh blood. And just to be clear, I want everyone from EVERY party fired. They have all lost their minds.
I admire the people who have participated and continue to participate in movements like 'Occupy Wall Street.' While other people call them "radical" and "hippies," I call them change-makers. All change that has taken place in this world was brought about by people like them. Go team, go, and don't let anyone deter you.
Not anymore.
If you haven't figured it out already, both world and national politics are farkakte, and we are all essentially fucked.
We are fucked because the world leaders are basically a bunch of adult-sized teenagers, hell-bent on having their own way. Cooperation and negotiation might as well be four-letter-words. Not only are our leaders immature, they are also insane. This is not a winning combination. Much like the religious freaks who bitch about what kind of exercise you participate in and what kind of clothes you wear, our political leaders don't even deserve a bird classification. If we all had good sense, we would fire every last one of them and bring in some fresh blood. And just to be clear, I want everyone from EVERY party fired. They have all lost their minds.
I admire the people who have participated and continue to participate in movements like 'Occupy Wall Street.' While other people call them "radical" and "hippies," I call them change-makers. All change that has taken place in this world was brought about by people like them. Go team, go, and don't let anyone deter you.
Monday, January 9, 2012
The Unchecked Mind
Let's kick start this blog with one of my favorite theories: The Unchecked Mind. I think one of the biggest problems we have in the world today is the problem of the unchecked mind. There are far too many people walking around on planet earth, whose minds are not being properly checked on. What I mean by this is, no one is ever stopping to ask these babies, "How ya doin?" "Whatcha been thinking about lately?" "Whatcha been thinking about doing?" "Who ya been thinking about killing?"
TV shows like 'Snapped' prove this to us. I recently saw an episode where this 19 year old girl's line of reasoning really was: "Well, if I kill my mom, then I can clean it up and wait for my dad to get home, then I'll kill him too, then I'll go to school tomorrow and I'll kill Carlos."
Hmmm......see, if someone had been checking in with this baby, perhaps they could have redirected her thought process towards something more productive. Something less murderous. Luckily (?), she only was successful in killing her mom.
Now I'm not trying to make light of the fact that someone's life has been lost. I'm trying to bring light to the fact that this little fool was somewhere thinking about this shit, and no one knew. Probably wrote her off as a "normal kid" who didn't get in trouble, so no one checked in on her, and wham- we've got a body. You're probably thinking of numerous other examples of people who, if someone had just asked, may not have done what they did. All it takes sometimes is a little redirection and a look on a friend's face that reads, "What the Fuck!?" to snap someone out of it instead of having them snap on your ass.
So the moral of this very first blog post is: Check in with people. Doesn't matter who it is, check in. Ask them how they're doing and what they've been thinking about lately. You just might save a life.
TV shows like 'Snapped' prove this to us. I recently saw an episode where this 19 year old girl's line of reasoning really was: "Well, if I kill my mom, then I can clean it up and wait for my dad to get home, then I'll kill him too, then I'll go to school tomorrow and I'll kill Carlos."
Hmmm......see, if someone had been checking in with this baby, perhaps they could have redirected her thought process towards something more productive. Something less murderous. Luckily (?), she only was successful in killing her mom.
Now I'm not trying to make light of the fact that someone's life has been lost. I'm trying to bring light to the fact that this little fool was somewhere thinking about this shit, and no one knew. Probably wrote her off as a "normal kid" who didn't get in trouble, so no one checked in on her, and wham- we've got a body. You're probably thinking of numerous other examples of people who, if someone had just asked, may not have done what they did. All it takes sometimes is a little redirection and a look on a friend's face that reads, "What the Fuck!?" to snap someone out of it instead of having them snap on your ass.
So the moral of this very first blog post is: Check in with people. Doesn't matter who it is, check in. Ask them how they're doing and what they've been thinking about lately. You just might save a life.
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