My whole ideas and basis for continuing my writing, song-making, and poeting are a friend of mine from school in Altoona. He actually ended up dropping out of the branch campus we attended his senior year of college with 40K in college debt. All to become an active activist, as if activist doesn't make that implication. He had many stong opinions for many non-conforming ideas that most would scoff at. But through all, he taught me a bunch of things. To have fun obviously, but it was college. But most life-inspiring was to always create, never stop because this world is always trying to make us, but we have to try back.
We created, many nights. That sounds a little on the gay side. But in all seriousness, we had many conversations about many issues, that opened our minds, and created. IBM said it best ideation. And while their commercial was a sort-of humorous affair with rooms in corporations for this process, it was true. Ideation is a very integral process in business, but even more so, in life. Creating within our own mind and sharing with others to prosper and create more new ideas is one of the most invaluable gifts we have been given.
But it all starts with the try. That I always refer to, and always must fight. So, here I am on this day, in a new season that is starting out as perfect as I could expect at my current position. Trying to live that lifestyle of try. And use that to affect others. Because what good is creation if it can't be shared. That is just the experience I had earlier today. At work, you couldn't tell a guy who was in a band versus the guy who stays home on a friday night on his Mac. So, discovering new things about others is a rewarding and interesting experience we can find in the work place.
I just started with a new 'team' working on a different 'product', financial to be exact. I'm about as friendly as I can be with all of them as I am new. But when I do get to conversate with them, there is always something new to be learned. Well, this guy, who thankfully and most identically to myself, annoys our supervisor; she's a little edgy, but we do antagonize. Well, I found out from one of the people in the group I've known the longest that he is trying to produce music, has attempted writing books, and has written and submitted a screen play. So, I got to talking to him, and it was very inspiring to see someone, who isn't necessarily in that path, but 'trying' and reaching for his dream. He said to me that he didn't necessarily have the most confidence in his product but he still produced, with the knowledge that any effort is the best effort. He also understood that improvement is limitless within the boundaries of one's improvement.
I concur to all of those beliefs. We, did, sadly, and most truthfully, admit that we were looking for the almighty dollar. But pursuing one's passion, in that is not a landmark to acceptance the capital paid back for their efforts. Nobody wants to produce a dead product, but sometimes we must sift through it all, and find our best. And the only way we can accomplish that is to try and never give up.
We can have one road, just one with many lanes.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Monday, March 23, 2009
I know you want me to want you, I want to...
I am an unfortunate line of events that has created a 25yr old indebted soul searching fool. Well, the key word in that was debt, and I know and have a lot of it. Mainly to due to education that I so lacklessly, and tactlessly, obtained. But I graduated, and that must count for something. In fact, in this day and age, you're lucky to have obtained that degree and not be working flipping burgers. That might have been to the extreme, but at the very, and most significantly, you're very unlikely to settle into a field you've chosen. And such is the society we have created: where I, as a tax-paying and contributing citizen, must pay over 100k to attend a university, and live life and fund all its other expenses while doing it. And this does not at all stop there, but at the end of the unemployment line.
Sure, if you had taken the opportunities that were presented to you, or more re-affirmingly, that were bought for you, and succeed with an above-respectable GPA, you will certainly be employed, gainfully, depending on the field. But most of us earth dwellers, must fight out a slimming job force to take a job that barely gets us by.
And there is our society; almost too capitalistic.
I'll never give up, but look around, many have. Even those just making ends meet, look at them, they have given up while getting by, which may be even worse, not economically, solely indivually.
I don't support an all-anything government, but to think that a socialist policy or two might not hurt us isn't a damning idea. We have many social programs that function properly, for the most part(everything can improve, and thus is our goal as humans), and are necessary for our continuity in this society. Firemen and Police. Mass Transportation. Pre-Secondary Education.
Capitalism thrives on the idea that Darwin did. Survival of the fittest. And to not have a humanitarian view, especially at at time where more are struggling than have ever, is ignorant. Rich can still be rich. The lazy can still lie dormant. The motivated can still find a way.
My writing is very eratical and I can honestly barely read it; I'm not or will I ever follow one direct path. How am I as a being to present this world with such an open mess. And I try to answer that daily; and fought hard and won the battle today. Everyday writing and trying and producing, whether negative, positive or neutral to this world is still a try. And I have and will always believe that try is the best we are. And when we produce so does the world. Such is physics; for every action there is a reaction. I keep to that, that any action of good nature, maybe thoroughly repeated, yes, but these actions can change the world for the better. No matter if its the entire one, or just one's.
pura vida.
Sure, if you had taken the opportunities that were presented to you, or more re-affirmingly, that were bought for you, and succeed with an above-respectable GPA, you will certainly be employed, gainfully, depending on the field. But most of us earth dwellers, must fight out a slimming job force to take a job that barely gets us by.
And there is our society; almost too capitalistic.
I'll never give up, but look around, many have. Even those just making ends meet, look at them, they have given up while getting by, which may be even worse, not economically, solely indivually.
I don't support an all-anything government, but to think that a socialist policy or two might not hurt us isn't a damning idea. We have many social programs that function properly, for the most part(everything can improve, and thus is our goal as humans), and are necessary for our continuity in this society. Firemen and Police. Mass Transportation. Pre-Secondary Education.
Capitalism thrives on the idea that Darwin did. Survival of the fittest. And to not have a humanitarian view, especially at at time where more are struggling than have ever, is ignorant. Rich can still be rich. The lazy can still lie dormant. The motivated can still find a way.
My writing is very eratical and I can honestly barely read it; I'm not or will I ever follow one direct path. How am I as a being to present this world with such an open mess. And I try to answer that daily; and fought hard and won the battle today. Everyday writing and trying and producing, whether negative, positive or neutral to this world is still a try. And I have and will always believe that try is the best we are. And when we produce so does the world. Such is physics; for every action there is a reaction. I keep to that, that any action of good nature, maybe thoroughly repeated, yes, but these actions can change the world for the better. No matter if its the entire one, or just one's.
pura vida.
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Production
Lately, this notion of production and consumption has been filling all areas of my life, from societal and personal. And I, Personally, also speaking economically, am solely presenting myself to the world as a consumer; that is outside of my profession. I almost said career, but so help me, if this is my career, which sort of de-notes(sp?) a life long thing. I guess so does profession, so I suppose job would be the most appropriate title. And this job, while being on the road of the 'career' that I chose for my life, is not in line with the end result of my collegiate experience. Or maybe I just say that all as to defend my meaningless and unfulfilling position in life, which I pray and hope is not my life's work.
Back to production however, as my writing tends to get off subject very easily, and more importantly, all too often. As I present myself to this world as a producer within my [country's] economy, I do so as a tax-paying, corporate-driven(low level as it is), consumer-minded, citizen. So, yes, I have a job, pay my taxes, contribute to a corporation that produces(where my contribution to society in a production stand point lies) a service that is necessary for our complex economy, and simply, I am a producer in that sense. Pretty much, an average 'Joe' producer; nothing outside a limited boundary, created by another significant member of society, at least ours in America: a corporation.
However, where my views rest, is not on a pro-corporation, capitalistic society, or in laimen's(sp?) terms, a 'money-driven world'. That is in fact the society that I have been raised and currently dwell in, as are most societies in this world. But my question is, who said this was the right way? Obviously, and most objectively as I can be, there are many problems within this world, and more specifically, our society. So, how can we, as a purely capitalistic society create such a line between the wealthy and the poor. Are several houses of enormous capacity and small one bedroom apartments and row houses where we should draw the line; and even more extreme, mansions, and the plain, ole' outside, the streets. Where do we get to say that, yes, this accomplished and even more so, blessed, human, deserves and should squander, while there are others, who lie on the streets at night, dreaming and, more appropriately, waiting, for a change. A dream and a hope that is almost unobtainable at that level.
Now, maybe I've again gotten too far off track, but is there not a point where we should, as a society, look past the capital that surrounds us, and look to ourselves, our own hearts. I'm referring to creating a humanitarian outlook, as opposed to this capitalist world we have thrived in and continue to follow in. Even in our worst times, which they say is now, we still live like Kings, compared to the peasants of this world.
Again, I digress, to my emotions to be specific. Its the one thing that fully controls me, or at least when I can't control them. These are only my beliefs, and who am I really... But as I said, 'we thrived'. Who really is we? Because there's millions, billions, that have not, and will never.
So to create a society centered around the dollar, is to base it on greed.
I've gotten into a whole new matter for discussion and subject. But, I think I answered my original question, that I may have not even stated within this. This was the reason I was even inspired to write. To question myself, and society. Whether it is better to produce, even though some of the end products were not what was intended, or even worthy of re-iteration at any other given point in time. Or whether a stagnant way of being; And producing, is a better route. Most certainly it is not easier, but fulfilling and contributing, is something that inactivity is not.
I see it all the time, and also fight it all the time; but with this act of non-inactivity(to say the double negative just to stress the importance of creating an atmosphere and life void of inactivity) I have shown myself, that it is in most point of fact, better to produce. Whether the end result changes the world, or lies in its place in that moment.
With any production, there is a product. And a product, no matter the value, always surpases a stagnant consuming way of being.
And with that, I have proved myself wrong. And right.
Back to production however, as my writing tends to get off subject very easily, and more importantly, all too often. As I present myself to this world as a producer within my [country's] economy, I do so as a tax-paying, corporate-driven(low level as it is), consumer-minded, citizen. So, yes, I have a job, pay my taxes, contribute to a corporation that produces(where my contribution to society in a production stand point lies) a service that is necessary for our complex economy, and simply, I am a producer in that sense. Pretty much, an average 'Joe' producer; nothing outside a limited boundary, created by another significant member of society, at least ours in America: a corporation.
However, where my views rest, is not on a pro-corporation, capitalistic society, or in laimen's(sp?) terms, a 'money-driven world'. That is in fact the society that I have been raised and currently dwell in, as are most societies in this world. But my question is, who said this was the right way? Obviously, and most objectively as I can be, there are many problems within this world, and more specifically, our society. So, how can we, as a purely capitalistic society create such a line between the wealthy and the poor. Are several houses of enormous capacity and small one bedroom apartments and row houses where we should draw the line; and even more extreme, mansions, and the plain, ole' outside, the streets. Where do we get to say that, yes, this accomplished and even more so, blessed, human, deserves and should squander, while there are others, who lie on the streets at night, dreaming and, more appropriately, waiting, for a change. A dream and a hope that is almost unobtainable at that level.
Now, maybe I've again gotten too far off track, but is there not a point where we should, as a society, look past the capital that surrounds us, and look to ourselves, our own hearts. I'm referring to creating a humanitarian outlook, as opposed to this capitalist world we have thrived in and continue to follow in. Even in our worst times, which they say is now, we still live like Kings, compared to the peasants of this world.
Again, I digress, to my emotions to be specific. Its the one thing that fully controls me, or at least when I can't control them. These are only my beliefs, and who am I really... But as I said, 'we thrived'. Who really is we? Because there's millions, billions, that have not, and will never.
So to create a society centered around the dollar, is to base it on greed.
I've gotten into a whole new matter for discussion and subject. But, I think I answered my original question, that I may have not even stated within this. This was the reason I was even inspired to write. To question myself, and society. Whether it is better to produce, even though some of the end products were not what was intended, or even worthy of re-iteration at any other given point in time. Or whether a stagnant way of being; And producing, is a better route. Most certainly it is not easier, but fulfilling and contributing, is something that inactivity is not.
I see it all the time, and also fight it all the time; but with this act of non-inactivity(to say the double negative just to stress the importance of creating an atmosphere and life void of inactivity) I have shown myself, that it is in most point of fact, better to produce. Whether the end result changes the world, or lies in its place in that moment.
With any production, there is a product. And a product, no matter the value, always surpases a stagnant consuming way of being.
And with that, I have proved myself wrong. And right.
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