SocietyteicoS

I actually sat down to write this blog once before, but the beauty of technology happened right before my eyes. You know, that magic that happens when you spend all your time carefully connecting all the right words together just so that it can turn into a blank document starring back at you. Kudos to you technology, you win!

Let's see if attempt #2 works out a little better.

The first time I was writing this was after I had been sitting down in my beanbag for about 7 hours straight, 3 of those hours were spent sleeping. About an hour of it was me thinking what I should be doing with my time, part of it was spent wasting away my life reading people's social media post that actually have no benefit to my life expect making me more grateful for what I do have. Another hour or two was spent watching Tai (my flatmate) play video games. Needless to say I was on a roll for the day!

Anyways, to the point of what I have been thinking about...

Our society is screwed up.

Like REAL screwed up!

Everything is backwards. Hm, well I don't think backwards is the word. Maybe, caught up in bad habits? Conditioned to do all the wrong things? Either way, you put it. Our society is not in a good place. Here are some few simple things that I am talking about.

How often do you or someone you know have no problem going out to the pub on a Friday night (or any night of the week) and throwing down 10 bucks for a brew? How often do you actually only buy one beer? I'd say if you are heading to the pub, you are spending at least $25 - $30. Now, you walk into the grocery store and see that grapes are $5 a punnet and you freak out. Maybe even the avocados are $3 each (that happens here in New Zealand). We think, eh I don't need those grapes after all. I'll be fine, I can find a substitute. Then we walk out of the grocery store without the fruit that we initially wanted and might even have a few bars of chocolate in our hands at this point. Why can we go to the liquor store and spend $50 on a bottle of whisky, but cringe at the thought of spending $15 a bunch of fruit (or something else healthy for you).

You know what else hit me. Like I said, I spent that 7 hours sitting in my beanbag, much of it spent doing nothing. Meanwhile, my family was back home having not talked to me in probably at least 2 days and who knows how many days it had been since I talked to my Maw Maw or grandma. We find it so easy to turn on our piece of plastic and interact with a digital face, but find it so difficult to pick up that same piece pf plastic and interact with our family and friends, people who love us and actually support us and benefit us. Like what the heckkk!!!! I'm so guilty of this and I hate it. Why have I conditioned myself so that every morning when I wake up, I want to grab my phone and check all of my apps. Who freaking cares who liked my picture! You know how many people probably look at your stuff, love it, and don't like, love, comment, or react to your picture or status because they don't want you to know that they are looking at your stuff?! So why do I waste my energy on things that are irrelevant and hold 0 significance in my life.

I've also had this really funny mental battle about how I am going to figure things I want to do vs things I should do. For instance, I was at work and I saw that there were a few spare balls laying around and I really couldn't be bothered walking over to pick them up and then walking them all the way back to the storage room. In my head, I was like eh someone else will get it. I didn't get them out anyways. Then, the better part of me started screaming at myself in my head. I was like what are you thinking?! Who are you? That's so rude. Do your job, you lazy... All of a sudden it hit me, I was like dang man, if I was in a job interview and they handed me a test with this situation what answer would I chose? Can you just imagine it written out for me:

You see a few of your balls laying around spare courts and you know if you don't put them up someone will steal them. What do you do?

A. Pretend you never saw the balls

B. Tell someone else you saw the balls so that they can put them up

C. Get your butt over there and put the dang balls up

Trust me, the answer became very clear to me. Needless to say I am trying to start living my life like it is a constant job interview.

Should I even get started on how our relationships and friendships would be so different if we were still forced to keep in contact with one another through letters?! I really think about the friends I have now and which friends would still be my friends if we were to have to write letters to one another. Even relationships... How many people, meet each other online now compared to having to actually going up to talk to the person in real life? This isn't necessarily a bad thing in all aspects, but I do think we are losing value in the conversations we are having with one another face to face.

So many things, so many thoughts.

I'll leave it at that for now...