This is not a movie.....

This is not a movie.
This is not a movie!!!
This is real life. Your real life.  And my real life.
Every day.

Most reading this post do not make a livable wage from the job you work at.  A job that you most likely spend as much time at as they will allow you, so that you can "earn" more money to make ends meet in your life outside that job.

Do you have a life outside that job???

Not really.  If you think about it all the things you do outside of work are mostly obligatory - buy groceries, pay bills, do laundry, clean, doctors appointments....
When do you ever stop all that and live??  When do you ever just stop and breathe and enjoy what's around you...?  Your life....?

You do not make a livable wage at your job.  You could not survive on your own, you must have some other income just to have the basics of life.  A parent or child with a job, a spouse who works, a bf or gf who works, a 'roommate'.....  The average citizen cannot survive, much less thrive, without a multiple income "family" or living arrangement.
This means you do not make a livable wage.

And at your job.....  They ask more and more of you, give you more unreasonable demands, set you up to fail, dangle "rewards" in front of you like a treat in front of a dog that's about to be castrated...  They push you, guilt you, intimidate you... All so that "good" people will choooooooose of their own free will to "do the right thing" and be a "team player".....

BULL     SHIT    !   !   !

How do they get away with that in America?
Well that's very simple children.  You let them.  When they say jump, you say how high.  Because you're afraid of losing your job and they know this.

So... OMG what happens if you lose your job?

Your life changes.  That's what happens.  And change terrifies you.  Therefore you spend your pathetic "lives" in fearful servitude (slavery) to a hierarchy that gets wealthier and wealthier because its so fucking easy for them to control you, they don't even have to put chains on you anymore!

YOU ARE A SLAVE.
You do NOT own your own life.
And what's most pathetic/disgusting... is that you all KNOW THIS !!!  MAN !

You whine and bitch and complain like spoiled fat children but will not do anything to better the world you live in.

We are all one.  And your actions - AND INACTIONS - affect the whole world.

Here's a silly suggestion but.... make yourself a playlist on iheart or pandora or spotify or youtube or what-ever-the-hell-you-listen-to....
Make a playlist of songs...  Here's a starter kit...  Inspirational Music .  Add to it and share!
This will help you stay focused on the fact that YOU'RE A SLAVE,  and nothing changes unless you do.

Peace and Love

Adventures in Smileage 1

So.... Last night me & my crew went over the Courtney Campbell to Pinkberry.  It was about 7ish in the evening.  Well, we've done this before and shoulda nowne, that weekend evenings are NOT a good time to try to go to PB!!!
It was so comical..... I must say.
There were so many angry people... LMAO!!!
Why??

PARKING!
dun dun DUUUUUUH!!!!!!!

LMAO!!!!!!!
I actually had fun in the face of parking carnage.  :P

Round and round we went.... waiting.... stalking.... competing....
Watching the looks on people's faces....
Dodging the (obviously) wealthy, greedy assholes as they dart and dive and move out of turn....
Obviously afraid that if they're kind enuff to be patient and play fairly, that YOU will get the last steak instead of them!
LMFAO...... Ohhhh..... Stupid fuckers..... I'm just here for the yogurt....!

HAAAAA!!!!!

For those not in the Tampa Bay area, Westshore Plaza has several very upscale restaurants on one side of the mall, and hiding inconspicuously behind them all..... is Pinkberry.  :)

So to get the best non-homemade yogurt ever made, you have to prepare for parking lot war.  That is unless you're smart enuff to go during the day.... Then its a little better.

I got some serious smileage... laffing and grinning ear to ear at the horn-honking, hand throwing, and the all around inconsideration of fellow human beings.....
AND we actually got to park and get yogurt!
I got a "pina colada" style with coconut yogurt, coconut flakes, mango, pineapple and mochi.
YUM!

Find Out for Yourself

No one noes anything anymore....
When you go to any given business establishment in a quest for expert advice, you......

Well you....., Well lets see.  You:

Assume.
Expect.
Hear what you wanna hear.
Can't find any answers.
Get conflicting information.
Get an attitude.
Get confused.
Get strate up lied to.
But most likely you get "sold"... Sold something that nobody truly noes anything about, because they don't really noe anything except to "sell shit".

Remember back in the day......???

"back in the day...."

This means different things to different peeple, but my "back in the day" means there were still peeple who had genuine nolledge.  Peeple had actual experience to share with inquiring minds.
Back in the day, this nolledge and experience was passed down to the next generation by family or masters who instilled their legacy to some authentic protege.

Authentic protege:  Someone who was born to absorb the very thing that you have to give.

Today society is well programmed.  There is no longer any wisdom.  No longer any genuine skill or mastery of anything.  One of the most dominant programming features is the one that says "you must have a job".  It doesn't matter what job.  Any job.
So generation after generation.... the stigma of being free leads to insanity and the compulsion to conform has created mindless idiots.

No one noes anything anymore.  They are all programmed drones who only noe how to sell, sell, sell.  We are "breeding stock" for corporations who just sit back and get wealthier and wealthier.

HUM..... Sounds like a Hollywood movie .  Huh ?

I recently watched a TED talk video featuring Jacob Barnett.  This is where its at.....
Genuine nolledge.

And one more thing before you watch this... If you still have signs of life and independent thawt, and you come across someone with genuine nolledge, skill, mastery of anything.... hang onto that person.  Respect them, honor them.  IDC if its a drive thru window lady at Taco Bell!!!  Appreciate that person!

S'mileage

When I became aware that I needed more smileage... it quickly dawned on me that maybe no one "got" it.
I've been told most of my life that I needed to 1) speak up, or 2) smile more.
Ok that's not what smileage is.
I have a naturally intense facial expression that I was born with.  Its genetic.  The only surviving baby picture of me (that I know of) is me being propped in a sitting position on the grass at the age of about 3 months with the classic, Eure "seriously?" look on my face.  No smile.
I don't need to "smile more".  That's fake.  I don't do fake.  To a fault.
Smileage... or maybe more accurately "s'mileage" = smile mileage.

I looked in the mirror yesterday morning and saw... my grandmother.  I saw my face passing into yet another stage of aging, which is not ok.  It means I carry too much stress mileage.
Youthful genes run in my family.  My dad and my grandparents, including my grandmother, do (did) not look there age.... when they were in their 60s, 70s & 80s!
I'm 49.  I should still look like a mere child.

I need more things that make me smile!  S'mileage.
The mileage on my face of 49 should reflect more reasons and occasions to smile.  Genuine, sincere joy... not a command to "Smile!"  (idiots!)