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Does privilege exist? Do you think you are better than anyone? Do you think people in the service industry are your equal? When you go to the grocery store, do you say hello to the people that are serving you? Do you ever ask how they are doing? Do you even care to acknowledge their humanity, or do you only care about the organic hummus you’re looking for? Are you the type of person that just walks up to random employees and bark off an item. No excuse me, no can you help me? Just walk up to a person that is stocking a shelf while their back is turned and hollar Peanut Butter! Then when they turn to you bewildered, you give them a look of disgust because you haven’t been instantaneously teleported to a wall of peanut butter. So they say, what was that? Now you’re annoyed, PEE NUT BUTT ERRR. First of all we’re not death or stupid. You interrupted our work and concentration. You didn’t even think to excuse yourself. Now, I have to politely escort you to the peanut butter.
I think I’m scared of success. I think that growth makes me nervous. I have so many things I want to accomplish but I keep making excuses. Not enough time. No money. I can’t possibly do that. At my age? Why do you do this? Self doubt is a dream killer. Why aren’t we trained to believe in ourselves? Why don’t we say to ourselves. Make time. Get the money. I can do anything. Success has no age limit. Some of us go through life and never reach our full potential. We have skills. Great ideas, but never take that first step. What are we afraid of, failure? You can fail a million times, but you only have to succeed once. The problem is you don’t know if this time you will succeed. There’s only one way to find out. You have to believe you will be successful and put all your effort into it. Taking a chance and not giving all you got is like not trying at all. If half of us took more chances and believed in ourselves more, we’d all be doing better, because the other half would see that it can be done and be inspired to try.
Metal health check. How is everybody doing? Are you good? Ok? Aight? Maybe you’re not good at all. That’s fine too. Admitting to not being ok is the first step towards addressing the issue. Most people won’t admit they’re not ok because maybe they don’t want to appear weak. Some don’t want to be that person who is always not good. There are many reasons not to be ok. Especially in today’s society. Health. Social Injustice. Cicadas. The economy. Guess what, you can not control any of those things. You have to focus on what you can control. The factors in your daily life that affect you mentally and or physically. First start at home with the now. How is your partnership holding up? Is it stronger or weaker than it once was? If it’s not what you want it to be, what are you doing to remedy the problem? Date nights, sex, gifts and money will not fix the problem. You have to start at the core.
I’m beginning to think that staying on the straight and narrow fundamentally hindered my life. You're raised believing that being a thug or knucklehead is going to mess your life up. That if you keep fucking up you’ll end up in jail or dead. We drank, we smoked and sold drugs. We were content with doing that for the rest of our lives. Nothing our folks said was going to change our minds. We all heard, what if your friends jump off a bridge? Shit, we were down for whatever. Loyal to each other until today. We eventually were pressured into believing that being upstanding citizens was going to make our lives that much better. I call bullshit.
Staying organized and staying focused on a goal is not as exhausting as I anticipated it to be. The issue I have that I’m running out of things to put in my to do list. In the last 2 weeks I’ve gone from watching TV 5 plus hours a day to getting up 2 hours early everyday just to write and do other things on my list. I don’t miss television. I watch 1 hour a day and other than that I’ll have a documentary or podcast on in the background while I work.
What's the best nation in the world? Vaccination. At least that is what it seems like right now here in the states. Employers are giving incentives for employees who get vaccinated. Krispy Kreme donuts will give you a free glazed donut every day for the rest of the year if you get vaccinated. After you get your second shot, if you take your completed vaccination card to Staples or Office Depot they will laminate it free of charge.
