onmymind

I decided today to avoid the outside world and take up an old hobby – painting. For the first time in a LONG time I actually felt Zen. I got caught up in my own positive imagination for once to ease my mind, rather than my usual drug of watching a mediocre sitcom or cheesy movie to escape life’s pressures.

I realize that Karl Marx never wrote anything about sitcoms or
Hollywood in his manifesto, and I realize that people like Lenin and Stalin gave communism a bad wrap in their own sadistic ways, but I can’t help but feel like my ‘democratic’ social obligations have made me a stranger of my own self.

Like I said, today, I found myself exercising my ability to create. What an amazing feeling! Creating used to be such a major part of who I was that I, at one time, even considered making my creative talents a major part of my future. However, I became the victim of social expectations, and I decided that it would be more productive to my future and my family’s future to contribute in a more reliable way – let’s say by producing goods and/or services (ex. working for somebody else)… hence my University years.

I went into my adult life knowing that the average person will change careers 3-5 times in their adult lifespan. This knowledge, at the time, was a comfort to me (in knowing that what I decided to do in my early years did not ACTUALLY matter). I had talked myself into believing that it was okay to be unhappy in a career – after all, talent is only a hobby. So I would take ‘that job’ and make ‘that money’ and watch ‘that show’ and laugh at that ‘syndicated joke’, all for the sake of my future.

However, after today, I can’t help but wonder “What kind of a world would force me (predominantly) into a left-brained standard of living?” After all, approximately half of the world’s population is dominantly right-brained. So, therefore, shouldn’t 50% of our career options cater towards those of us who cringe at the thought of databasing and structured thought processes?

Yes, we were brought into this world to be treated equal… but let’s face it, we are not CREATED equal! We are all individuals learning to survive together. Perhaps we should segregate, at least enough, so that we can all get as much out of this life as we deserve? If we really were Democrats, then let’s face it, we would have equal opportunities to achieve success and happiness. If we don’t give everyone an equal chance at life’s prosperous allowances; if we sit idly by while others (who at one time would have been considered to be the worlds’ greatest minds) end up failing miserably in the streets or in asylums because their money hording society has no immediate need for them, then wouldn’t that make us capitalists?

I will leave you to research the differences of meanings.

… To be continued.

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