Be Kind...Rewind!
You know those moments in your life when you kind of wish you could take back...I try to keep these sorts of moments to a minimum in my life, but it seems they just kind of sneak up on you. It tends to be okay if an action is logical and reasonably motivated, and people give you the benefit of the doubt. There are worse consequences if you let your guard down and become an emotional wreck. So the latter has happened to me a couple of times since I last posted making me more of an angry and disillusioned person, mainly due to my concerns about what other people did (and consequently now) think of me.
It has however made me think more about how I am now and where I want to be, and whether I would ever be strong enough to be pleased with anything other than superficial/material things. This feeling has definately been exacerbated by my watching of an interesting (although quite poorly made) documentary I watched StartUp.Com about a two dudes who started up their own .com business. People who have a common vision, and then through the financial and material greed forgo friendships and relationships with people.
How fickle is the human spirit? Really, when it comes down to it everybody has a price.
With the events of last week, and the massacre at Virginia Tech (my condolences to anyone that may have known someone affected by the event) - a lot of interesting conversations have circulated around the office. It did make me question how far I could go...so I have been asking a lot of people this hypothetical question: "Would you ever consider robbing a bank if you knew you could get away with it, and there were no consequences?"
There have been a varying number of responses - I think a lot of people have taken the moral ground by stating that they would never...I'm not so sure!
So thank you to the people that have been very supportive of me of late! You know who you are. I greatly appreciate it :-)
Also, to those people that responded re: the vaccine thing - FYI, it turns out that I am in an extreme minority. Apparently everyone believes and trusts people who wear white coats - refer to the Milgram Experiment
It has however made me think more about how I am now and where I want to be, and whether I would ever be strong enough to be pleased with anything other than superficial/material things. This feeling has definately been exacerbated by my watching of an interesting (although quite poorly made) documentary I watched StartUp.Com about a two dudes who started up their own .com business. People who have a common vision, and then through the financial and material greed forgo friendships and relationships with people.
How fickle is the human spirit? Really, when it comes down to it everybody has a price.
With the events of last week, and the massacre at Virginia Tech (my condolences to anyone that may have known someone affected by the event) - a lot of interesting conversations have circulated around the office. It did make me question how far I could go...so I have been asking a lot of people this hypothetical question: "Would you ever consider robbing a bank if you knew you could get away with it, and there were no consequences?"
There have been a varying number of responses - I think a lot of people have taken the moral ground by stating that they would never...I'm not so sure!
So thank you to the people that have been very supportive of me of late! You know who you are. I greatly appreciate it :-)
Also, to those people that responded re: the vaccine thing - FYI, it turns out that I am in an extreme minority. Apparently everyone believes and trusts people who wear white coats - refer to the Milgram Experiment
posted by K @ 3:35 pm
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