I suppose you could say it was interesting observation on humankind today as I was leaving for work. In general I do find people to be lazy and self serving but I like to give them the benefit of the doubt. I would love for them to prove me wrong and allow me to see the best in them instead of assuming the worst. Generally speaking I keep a good distance away from people on the whole. They do their thing and I go on and do my thing. We live happily beside each other. My parents were kind enough to give me a well rounded education when I was young, enabling me with the capability to learn and to adapt to the world around me. I understood at a very young age that the world was filled with all sorts of different people like a rainbow is full of an array of different colors. I didn't pass judgment. I didn't demand more than what I deserved. I offered a hand when someone was in need. Today, however, a few people's true colors shined. I often excel in the things that I do whether I enjoy the task or not. To me, things are simple as long as you don't complicate them. I have a job that by all means is one of the easiest ones I've ever had and at times the most frustrating. It's not what I'm supposed to be doing but it is what I must do at the moment. I won't deny that I'm good at what I do though it does not challenge me in any sort of way. And apparently because I am good at what I do, I inadvertently make other people who do the same meaningless task as me look bad. Did I intentionally outshine them? Did I cause their reprimand? I think not. I do what I do and that's all there really is to it, simple.
What was so shocking to me yet humorous at the same time was the way that these people reacted once they were talked to. Instead of taking responsibility for their own lack of achievement, they berated me and asked me to stop doing what I was doing. They suggested that I do not do a good job and that I slack off because I was making them look bad. In other words, they were asking me to not be who I am for the sake of making them look better. Pride is a funny thing. When it is hurt, it makes you do funny things including asking someone else to change for your benefit. My response? I laughed and told them no basically. The great thing about being me is that because I was so well educated that I understand that this was this their folly, not my own. The great thing about having self respect is that you can smell someone's own lack of it from miles away. I understood why they were asking me. I understood what they wanted me to do but it wasn't going to happen.
Is their laziness my problem? You can't make a dog shit when it's pouring outside if it doesn't want to. You can't force someone to take responsibility for their own laziness if they have no desire to change it. And you can't demand someone else stop being who they are for your own gain. So, no, I won't take it down a notch or slow down or compromise who I am by any means because who I am will always be something greater than people like that.
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