Reflecting on Women
Er, … men aren’t an exception. We too spend a huge chunk of our limited time here on earth worrying about, not only what “others” think of us, but how we look too.
In his book, Lewis Mumford, mentions how the invention of glass led to the invention of the mirror. An invention that in turn bred self-consciousness.
That then, I’d like to add, has given birth to industries which profit from their promise to make 43 year-old women look 34. Not forgetting those who pay their bills by cheering up those depressed by the prevalence of wrinkles on their beloved faces.
(Being/looking young is a stage. Sadly, most of us can’t let go of the poor phase.)
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The Purpose of Life
(If the purpose of life is to determine who goes to “heaven” — and who doesn’t — then life is dumb.)
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The Anatomy of a Salary
If your job is to, say, wash cars, then, your employer probably estimated how many cars you will wash, on average, in a month. Multiply that by the most that he is willing to pay you per car — and then, you should have yourself your salary.
( … but what if your job entails coming up with ideas?)
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Former Dreamer
Granted, maybe I am generalizing, some people’s dream was to work at some people’s companies. (i.e., help others achieve their own dreams.)
But most people are working wherever they work merely because their working there promised to keep their landlord’s mouth shut — not because working there (or “working” for that matter) was their dream. Like Mr. King, … they had a dream.
(A slave that had the “privilege” to choose over who its master is … is still a slave.)
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Entrepreneurial Employees
If you tie a young elephant to a small tree, after a few attempts to set itself free, it will accept defeat. Nothing wrong with that. The problem starts when the elephant is old, huge, and, strong enough to break free from the tree — but it fails to even attempt to do so — merely because it still sees yesterday’s limits as today’s limits.
(Some people have “witnessed” so many paydays that they believe that money can only come once a month into their bank account. That there is the cruelty of habit.)
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Hierarchy of Wants
The top part mostly applies to men. Whether he is aware of it or not. Whether he accepts it or not. With the way that he walks, the way that he talks, his choice of words when he is around species of the opposite sex, the brands that he uses, the type of car that he drives, … all the poor brother is trying to do is to triple the odds of him getting laid wherever he goes.
(We spend almost all of our limited time here on earth trying to conquer the above.)
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Doom and Gloom
Some loses come with some gains embedded in them. Sadly, we are programmed to only see what we lose. Seldom, what we gain from losing what we just lost.
*It goes without saying that an employee’s daily “shift” takes more than the daily 8 hours stipulated in his employment contract.
(To lose a master is to gain freedom. To lose a nagging lover is to gain silence.)
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