Day 56: My Fire Exit is a Back Draft

There are some things in life you just can't change and then there are things that are everchanging. Number one, you can't change yourself. Life made you the way you are, you'd have to go back to your three-year-old self and then head out on the open road to a new life in order to be someone different. Skipping town as a three-year-old is a difficult thing to do, trust me, but bus fare is cheap. I must say, though, the things a three-year-old had to do for a dime way back when...Washing dishes at Mrs. S's house for two hours, isn't that like child slavery? Anyway, we adapt to some situations and even sometimes our personalities are affected by that adaptation, but we'll always be us. Take us, or leave us, but do not stand there and expect us to change.

When you first get hired on at a job or even first start dating someone, you'd think that they would know all this, or at least figure it out in the three-month probationary period. But they don't. They wait until you've got nothing else lined up and slam you with a, "You know, you're just not the right fit." or "You're just not up to our level." or "You're going to have to put your pants on if we're going out for dinner.". Those are some pretty high expectations, considering you were up to their level upon hiring and you've never considered pants an important part of your wardrobe before. The bar has just been set to the next level of mundane, expectations have changed, and nobody has bothered to let you know.

Changed expectations are never reasonable, either. What snapped in their head to make them decide that you're no longer good enough? Or were you just some oddity to begin with to shake things up and then get thrown away? Or are they too lazy and scared to deal with the innovations and excitement that come out of using a back draft as a fire exit? People say they want innovation and different, but what they really want in the end is a robot employee or cookie-cutter girlfriend/boyfriend. This is "safe". F***ing redundant and bland, but "safe" for them.

However, "Safe" doesn't allow a company or a person to adapt to a world and society that IS changing. How many times do our taxpaying dollars have to be used to save GM or Air Canada from bankruptcy protection? I'm figuring forever, because these corporations aren't going to change. Not everyone wants a F***ing truck, okay? And Air Canada, Airbuses suck ass, yet you keep buying them. What did Boeing ever do to you except offer good, affordable, WORKING planes? Ah, yes, that's right, Brain Mulroney and the corruption of the 80s happened.

The way I figure it, the golfers at the top won't let anyone in except for mini-mes; They're just to lazy and coddled to deal with different and channel it into a profit. It's the same with relationships. We are rewarded in society when we maintain a certain standard which has been dictated to us through the media. Capitalism is our world order, buy buy buy, buy baby clothes, buy family cars, buy a family house, we'll lend you the money at a premium, but just don't stop buying. An indebted society is also a controllable one for a government. Don't want any more social movements happening without government orchestration, screw the 60s and those damn hippies. Lets knock this country back into the 50s. Whatever. Something will snap. Nothing like a good revolution, couldn't be worse than Whyte's crack corner on a Saturday night.

In the end, everyone needs to start enjoying people for who they are and start taking some risks. Have some fun. Dive head first into something, the water is deeper than you think. And if you don't start accepting people for who they are and enjoying the idiosyncrasies and using those idiosyncrasies to your advantage instead of expecting them to morph into something they're not, then you've got nothing but divorce and bankruptcy and sadness in your future. Good luck with that.