Mar 30 2005

More Work

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 22:12

Yeah yeah yeah….

Follow your passions, dreams, goals, desires….

Or like the scene from “Office Space” goes — The main character talks about being in the counselor’s office in High School and being asked what he would do if he suddenly came in possession of $1 million. And he thinks about it sitting in his cubicle with his friends and comes up with his answer — “Nothing.”

Who said that we actually had to join the rat race of working stiffs to actually feel like we’re contributing to society? Who said that being a small cog in the machine of Western capitalism run amuck? Who said that I had to be a happy small-time producer with no rights or ownership as well as a blind big-time consumer following the whims of Madison Avenue? Why can’t I retreat from the world like Henry David Thoreau? Why is that pegged as such an idealized, impractical reaction? Why? Maybe I like the wilderness and don’t want to rely on electricity…. I’d miss my music though…. Hehehe….

Mar 30 2005

Work

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 19:53

Ehhhh…. There are nights when I just don’t like my job, don’t like what I do, don’t like what I sell, don’t like that my life is being quickly sucked out of me. I’m sure we’ve all had such jobs, but the question is, “What do we do about them when we’re stuck in them?

Mar 30 2005

Motivation

Category: Uncategorized — dryvetyme @ 03:11

So, I spent the evening in Houston, in a theater, getting really charged up and inspired to do more than I usually do with my life. Granted, I don’t just sit around all the time being a drain upon society and wasting the air that I breathe, but there are those times when I think, “Wow. What am I really doing with me life? How did I become such a big, stinkin’ loser?” Then there are those times when I think, “Wow. I have a lot to offer someone. I have big ideas, dreams, & visions that someone/body could help me put to use for the greater good of mankind (or something else ridiculously idealistic!”

But when I hear someone like Amy Goodman speak, I remind myself that I CAN get involved with a cause or some causes in which I really believe and I CAN make a difference. And that, my friends, really isn’t idealistic. It’s motivation. Plain and simple. I just have to get myself off of dead center (a interesting metaphor, since what do you find in the middle of roads in East Texas? Dead animals) and get myself moving toward a more common good, not only for how I interact with the world, but also in how the world engages me. Wow. Don’t I feel pushed, prodded, and poked. Or if anything, I’ve received yet another bit of focusing and refocusing in my life and direction. Involvement and volunteerism does NOT mean that you get exploited by the parent organization. They JUST might actually appreciate your assistance and effort.