I read a lot of newspapers; it's part of the job. Kinda.
I read the local paper. I read the Detroit Free Press. I read the Washington Post and the New York Times. And some smaller papers like the San Luis Obispo Tribune and the Lexington Herald-Leader. And the Lewis County Press-News Journal.
One of the articles was about a normal guy on a normal day that woke up, got dressed, went to work, and shot his co-workers.
They found him in the men's room, in a fetal position, crying like a baby.
That got me thinking. And not what you THINK I was thinking.
There will be people who will jump on the soapbox and say that it's too easy to get a gun in this country and if we can keep the lunatics from arming themselves, the country will be a safer place.....and there will be people who will blame the environment, saying, "well, that happens in Detroit (or Chicago, or New York, or Phoenix) all the time." And there will be people who will shake their heads, and change the channel or turn the page and focus on FAMILY GUY or DOONESBURY.
But the solution is far more complex, and far more simple.
The average worker in the United States works an average of 7 hours of overtime a week.
The average worker sleeps five hours a night.
20% of workers eat their lunch at their desks, working through their lunch break.
Over 41 MILLION workers didn't take vacation last year.
And people are actually working longer....into their 70's.
We have become a society of hamsters, spinning the wheel. We take no breaks, we take no time for ourselves, and we don't even sleep deeply enough to erase the daily demons from our heads.
The solution?
Joe Banks didn't kill Mr. Waturi.
He just went on an adventure.
So. Don't wait for the Brain Cloud.
Take your time.
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I still have my ticket stub from being one of the 8 actual people who saw this in the theatre. We've talked of our love of it...and how true. So true.
We must NOT wait for our brain cloud.
I want a shirt that says take me to the volcano. for reals.
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