We have been sold a scam and I really want to know who is behind it. We were told that with hard work and sweat we would get ahead. We would make a difference and change the world. But as the years come and go, I am becoming much more cynical. We just seem to be getting farther from that goal. We are becoming a world of workaholics who spend more time in the office getting less done.
By "less", I am not measuring the amount of project work completed in a certain period of time, instead I look to our lives as a whole. Are we living healthy happy lives or are we running ourselves to death on a treadmill of corporate processes? The more people I interact with and the more people I meet, the latter seems to be more common.
So what should we do? We are offered millions of self-help sound-bites but almost everything boils down to the same outdated logic: Adapt or move-on. Yet neither option is very palatable. Really the only choice we have is to adjust or find someone "not-as-bad"? Or is it in our nature to seek challenges, misjudge our ability to take on additional work and let our pride get in the way of saying "I messed up and I need help"?
And
this is the great irony isn't it? The world today is safer, richer and
more comfortable than ever before but we seem to be becoming less of
what makes us human and more of something else, something commercial
and clean, something obsessed with appearance and protocol. We are some
monstrous mesh of future, hypothetical and abstract. It is as if we
looked into the future, and been so scarred by what we saw that we now
chose to live our lives like tomorrow doesn't matter and yesterday
never happened. Narcissism has become the new fashion trend.
But how much can we love ourselves before the we make ourselves sick?
*Picture comes from: http://www.directorslog.com
