November 21, 2008
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WCFQ 25c: Change is for the Courageous
Writers Choice Featured Questions Week 25
Powered by ShareThisHow will you change your world?
PunkDiva
I think in the pursuit of any positive change, it’s important to identify your goals and the steps it will take to get there. I’ve done that. My goal is to open my own bookstore, either online or in an actual building. Since the first is more realistic given my finances, an e-business is the plan. Now I am identifying the steps and qualifications I’ll need in order to do it. Part of that was the class I took recently. While it was mostly a waste of $200, it did give me some ideas to work with and some understand of the steps I will need to take. It also discouraged me from opening a “real” store because I simply don’t have the funds and am not likely to be given them by any banks. So if nothing else, the class allowed me to focus entirely on an online front.
My “world” currently consists of me working for “the man,” “the man” in this case being big business. The bigger the corporation, the more faceless it becomes. I know the names of the people who run Borders, but I don’t know them. I’ve never met them and am never likely to. If I don’t know them, I can’t trust them. And if they don’t know me, then how can I believe that they care about me or anyone at my level of the company? They simply don’t. If something benefits them, they’ll do it whether it infringes upon what I see as my rights or not. I don’t see them taking anything away from themselves to preserve the company, but I do see them taking things away from the “little guy” at my level, and I don’t think it’s fair. We’re wage-slaves. They’re not. They make what they make regardless of how the company is doing and if the company is doing poorly, they simply take from us to maintain their own coffers. This is the kind of attitude that led to Mutiny on the Bounty. If these people were the captain of a ship, they’d be synonymous with Captain Blygh.
So I need to get out from their thumb. I need to start my own business and be the captain of my own ship. As it stands, I and others like me are like leaves in the wind, constantly being blown all over creation by the whims of the company. We’re not important to them. People are a “dime a dozen” to big business. If I leave, supposedly there are a dozen more people eager to take my place for half the pay. And as much as I’d like to dispute that, it’s true in this economy.
That’s no way to live. Talk about demoralization! There’s a reason more people kill themselves during the holiday than at any other time of year. I don’t know the statistics, but I’d bet money that a significant portion work in retail! I need to take charge of my life and be the master of my own destiny. So long as I let others tell me where to go and what to do, I am nothing. I am not fated to work for others for the rest of my life. Nietzsche called fate a word for cowards who don’t have the courage to fight for change. So long as I work for others and am unhappy, I am a coward.
November 21st
The Mayans celebrated the arrival of Kukulcan around this time every year. They would fast, burn incense, offer food, and create exquisite banners of colored feathers for several days before his arrival.
This is a feast day of Hathor.
The Alpha-Monocerotids meteor shower peaks on this date. It began on the fifteenth and will end on the twenty-fifth.
Comments (5)
Sings* A chaaange is gooonna comeeee.
Go, you!
It sounds like Borders CEOs have the same moral compasses as those at Freddie Mac, Fannie Mae, etc. etc. I had a professor once who said, “Never trust big business. They will eat their own children.”
Yay for you! I can’t wait to see when your store opens. That has gotta be a good day
At least you have a plan. So many others don’t. Congratulations on making a decision. I have a feeling that you’re going to do just fine.
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