Simple Instructions

What type of person are you? I mean, how easily are you irked by the simple facts of life that don't turn out the way you want? For example, at a local Starbucks, you ask the barista to fill you a nice cup of ice coffee, sweetened, with milk and a touch of hazelnut… and instead you get all but the milk, sugar, or hazelnut. Does it matter if that happens in the morning, lunch, or after a long day at work?

But what about if this keeps happening constantly… not necessarily at the local Starbucks, but other places, like McDonnalds? I don't know about you, but I consistently have to reinforce my request. Sometimes, I wonder if it's my spoken english that is an impediment to others. I don't want to sound ignorant, but some people just aren't qualified to be out there with the customers. Because, some customers get really irritated, and in the defense of normal people, this is an unfortunate event.

There are other more important things in life than getting your order right the first time. After all, you're getting a service, which by a definition is not a right.

On the same line of thought, I don't believe the excuse for not following simple instructions is defined by the concept "it's only human to make mistakes" because then we would definitely be in trouble, all the time. It may come as a surprise to you but these types of mistakes go unnoticed for the most part. Until, of course, it's a "big deal" and all the hell breaks loose.

Surface Matters

… Approaching from a distant unknown into the realms of a quiet planet -- our planet. It is silent except for slow-tormented cloudscapes enveloping the hemispheres, nothing seems to tilt the spin of perpetual stillness as it seems. Dive deeper into the lives of its inhabitants and that is about to change -- forever.

Stretching decades long, I have yet to see a wider spread of instability in the lives of individuals than we see today. Not really a surprise. Priorities have changed, I noticed. So did resources. But the sickened desperate desire to enrich one's self over the servitude of our next in kin has never been as strong and obvious as todays.

No single person can solve the problems facing the world today --the unanimous decision is to step aside and watch history unfold. The problem is we are easily distracted from a much bigger plan of a brave new world coincidentally portrayed by Aldous Huxley in his phenomenal 1931 novel.

One may argue our lives have become more fiction than reality, immersed in imagined lives of gaming and entertaining and far less in physical human interaction, of closeness, of respect and trust. All these lie inside each of us, but have yet to appreciate their true side effect. Life's too short to wonder "what if." Others would say, respect, trust, and kinship is just as well attained in the online world. It's an adaptation.

No matter what your beliefs are, don't just stand there. Do something today. Make your existence leave a mark somewhere, someplace, in someone's life. Decades from now, evil empires will still exist, and others will take their place. Our lives are far too fragile to save them for last. It's not worth it.