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Can't Escape Your Fate

Friday, January 4, 2008

It seems that, no matter who you are and what you do, there are forces seeking to impose their will, or their interpretation of your will, on you. By "you," I mean me.

I don't understand this world. We say that we should chase our dreams and do what we want, but there's an adendum to that statement: do it fast. Bill Gates and the NFL taught us that no matter what you've done in the past, good or bad, all that matters is what you're doing now and are going to do in the future. In fact, what you're doing now doesn't really matter as all people seem to do these days is worry about what lies ahead.

Our society is planned out to an almost absurd degree. I say almost because sometimes it it is obvisouly necessary to map out a plan of some sort; but we are at a point in time where nothing is valid until there is a plan blocking out every step of the process. Financial planning, health planning, business planning, marketing planning, urban planning, land use planning...how many of these really need a long, thought out plan attached to them? Really? Financial planning: don't blow your credit by investing in that Ugandan ex-president's get-rich-quick scheme. Health planning: GET OFF YOUR ASS AND EXERCISE, YOU ASSHOLE! And so forth.

Now here's the point where some guy says, "Hey I went to business school, or law school, or medical school, and you don't know what it takes to plan for certain issues and things that have to be accounted for." And that guy is right. I don't know. But I do know that while people tell me that I can pursue what and how I choose, it sure doesn't seem that way. I have a plan, it just wasn't drawn up by me.
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