Marked

Tuesday 5/28/24

There isn't a lot that people enjoy more than telling you or anyone who will listen--or anyone who is not listening--that they're old. People of all ages do this, at every opportunity, or any chance they can manufacture. It's a way to be defeatist. People love to be defeatist because that makes it easier to tap out and with an excuse and people love both tapping out and excuses.

"So and so marked themselves safe from the rain storm in Kalibash County" on Facebook really means, "So and so marked themselves as looking for attention." Did you get it? Hope you got it. Because someone who needs so much of it always has to have more and there's no such thing as enough.

I must admit, I really don't like motorized scooter people. I can understand if they have a ways to go to work and the scooter has replaced public transportation for them and is also more economical, but I don't think that's why people ride them. I think they're so lazy they want to get out of having to lift one foot and put it in front of the other and not to be nasty but that kind of person sickens me.

There are so many people who will lay on their horn if someone hesitates for so much as a fraction of a second, like they're very important and no one's time is as valuable as theirs. I'll look at these people in their cars when I am out walking and I wonder, "What do you need to get to that is so important that the tiniest sliver of a second is crucial?" And apparently the answer is somewhere where they can eat, judging by the looks of many of them. That ever-so-slight delay represents time that could have been spent in a chewing motion.

This is the tourist season now in Boston, where overweight Americans come to the old city to mix with all of the overweight Bostonians. In these summer months, along the Freedom Trail, you see what a country of lazy lumps we are. It's like a parade of the lumps. (I am not talking about people battling deeper and larger issues. Life can be very hard, and the pain of life can affect us all in different ways. The struggle to brush the teeth can become an epic one. That is real. That's not what I mean, though. I mean the people who are otherwise fine in regard to these matters who lack for discipline and are lazy and want to do the least amount of anything that is possible.)

You are, of course, supposed to think this is wonderful. You're supposed to think everything is wonderful save that which is wonderful. And that this obviously not-so-good thing is as good as what used to be good things but which are no longer good things or have fallen back to the pack with things that used to be not-so-super things and not-so-healthy things and not-so-helpful things and dangerous things and false things, etc.

Often I want to say to people, "You have agency." People go through life as if they have none at all. We don't always have it. When we don't have it, we can make sure to control what we can control elsewhere the best that we can, which can lead to or foster agency in those areas where our control is limited at the moment. The game is still being played. It's not over. Sometimes you have to manage for later innings. An excuse causes people's eyes to light up. "Is that really all mine? Just what I wanted!"