I think just asking myself that , do others do the same. The more I learn about people the less I believe so. Most people don't think for thinkings sake. I'm no philosopher, but I just don't understand how people can be so mindless. Not to say they are stupid, but just that they think about a great deal of things that are completely and utterly stupid.
For instance, reality shows perplex me. Not in a way like most. I don't feel propelled to watch them, even as some would describe as a guilty pleasure. I simply just don't understand. Watching other peoples lives seems to be the biggest waist of time in all of existant time and space. Why? I have heard peoples explanations as to why it is entertaining and I guess that part of my brain does not exist. Whenever I hear someone say how they just can't get enough of a reality show I immediately think less of them. I cannot help it. Just the way it is.
Television is just that to me. Not to say there weren't shows that I liked. They always seemed to have an intricately interesting story line that somehow created sparks in my imagination or inspired me. Reality TV does not do that for me. Instead, the opposite happens. It's like it expands a void of nothingness and non creativity. In actuality, I would say that over the last couple years I have been turned of to television completely. The last show I watched with any conviction was the Sopranos. That was it...
Since eliminating television from my routine over these last 3 0r 4 years I have found an abundant amount of creativity and time to do everything I want. When people say they do not have time to exercise I believe that to be a farse. I do not know a single person I have ever met that does not have time to watch 30 minutes of television a day.
People have just grown accustom to not doing what isn't entertaining or instantly beneficial. Patience, determination, and a willingness to sacrifice is what I believe is going to be my keys to success. I understand that without great sacrifice one cannot truly gain great success.
I also believe that it takes time, work, focus, struggle, and more work. Then when all that is said and done, still, there needs to be more work done. One can never stop, if ambition and success is what one truly has a goal. Now, if it's a dream... Good luck with that. Dreams are ridiculous notions that lazy people believe in because they do not want to put in the leg work to achieve them.
A Goal is a concrete objective that is a dream taken from the abstract, sculpted, manipulated, and formed into a reality. Through planning, work, determination, and a will that doesn't accept limitations is how goals are achieved.
I never had a dream. Both figuratively speaking and as a concept. When I sleep I have horrible nightmares or realistic situations (which are about the closest thing to a dream I get). As a child I never dreamed of being anything. I never wanted to be an astronaut, or a dinosaur. The most absurd thing I dreamed about being was the color purple. Which I guess as far as dreams ago that is what they should be. An outlandish attempt at taking something completely abstract in form and wishing it to be a reality. Your reality.
My goal as a child was to be an artist. There were steps I had to take. I did those and with determination, hard work, focus, and ignoring other people's limitations placed on me. I would like to think I have achieved that goal. I am an artist.
I went to art school. I have had art shows. I teach children art. So, in all aspects of my goal... I am an artist. Now, being a successful artist is a whole other issue. That was to be my goal, but like life, goals can change. I am now on the cusp of a whole new set of goals. 23 of them to be exact. Will I succeed? I think so... No, I know so. With focus, determination, work, work, and more work there will be no other option, but to succeed.
I write things such as these not for people, not for me, not for anybody. I write things articles such as these to take words, ideas, concepts, and dreams out of the abstract and give them a concreteness. Once out of my head they become a reality. A tangible substance that I can look over, revise, edit. They become real. If others find comfort in seeing someone going through similar thoughts good. If not, that is even better.
I finally now realize why people watch TV. It numbs the mind... People don't like to think all the time... I do... That is what is different! Eureka! Zombifying the mind leaves one in a catatonic state where the pain of the world has a buffer zone. I enjoy to be emursed in the conflict humanity. I enjoy to test the limits of what I can imagine and create. I like to create concrete objects that verge on the edge of reality. I like to picture the unimaginable and then develop a set of plans as to how and create what cannot be created. Solving solutions to which there is no problem. Asking questions that have already been answered.
Maybe I have turned into an intellectual, although I find it highly unlikely because I still laugh at the most juvenile of humor and I really enjoy playing Madden football.
So, take this little rant as you may. It wasn't written for any particular reason, or person... Just figuring things out in my head and they seem to figure themselves out better written onto a screen for me to look at when the time is right.
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