One of the lasting images of "Election day 2012" will of course be the outrageously long lines. I remember 2008, I think I waited in line for an hour and a half or possibly two to vote. It was a proud time, usually I go off to vote by myself but I was able to vote with both of my brothers and my parents. It was a fun time, granted we had waited til election day so of course we were forced to wait in those long lines to make sure our votes counted. This time around we were a little more spread out, so while me and my parents went off to vote together my brothers were still at a job site somewhere.
My father currently signed up to get a knee replacement was allowed to go first since he did have proof of his disability. Me and my mother on the other hand waited in the Vorgon's cue a never ending serpentine of people. We went to pick up my mother slightly after 5 pm, and within 15 minutes got to a polling place, this year we decided to early vote just in case something was incorrect. By the time we finished it was well after 7 pm because they had required us to file through a room in the church building that housed the voted machines so that they could TRY and shut the doors. It was a futile attempt, people had been pulling up in cars ever since we got there and it was a good sized line(longer then we realized) when we got there. For a while me and my mother thought we were getting close when we made it into the hallway, little did we know it was more subway tunnel then it was foyer. we started joking after hour two because there was nothing else to do, we refused to get out of line we had toughed it out that long and if there is one thing I know I came by my stubbornness honestly. I believe when my father was finally able to retrieve us it was somewhere around 8 pm(might have even been 9 pm, I guess I could check my tweets from that night). And I was happy I had done my civic duty, added my voice to the masses and was prepared to wait til election day to see how it had worked out.
Showing posts with label determination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label determination. Show all posts
Friday, November 16, 2012
Sunday, November 15, 2009
You need to be the world's optometrist
What? I know right that looks crazy as hell, so let me explain it to you. Many people have dreams, dreams to them that are crystal clear and amazing yet when you explain it to someone else they tell you it's all fuzzy and doesn't make sense, they can't see how it would work out. Here's the thing they aren't supposed to, if they could why would they need you to show it to them? Think about it, if ANYBODY could have come up with the collected works that are the Walt Disney films and cartoons, why would it be called Disney?
I mean there have been a bunch of rabbits out there as cartoon characters but if I say "Myaaaaah Whats up Doc?" I'm sure only a certain carrot eating cottontail comes to mind, hell I bet you only imagine him with one voice(even though like a lot of cartoon characters he has had a few variations that just like his looks were refined over time until they found the one we all loved). How about long distance communication, there is a pepsi commercial out that details a few of them, but not all we went from going ourselves, to sending other people, to sending birds, to sending people on horses, to sending people on boats, to people on trains, to people on trucks, planes, to morse code and telegraphs, then telephones, then e-mails, text messages, and instant messages. I can guarantee you each time the person who thought of this new way to communicate explained it to somebody they got that old scooby do look "Ruuh? ". It wasn't because it was a lousy idea or because it wasn't feasible it was because it was your dream, your thought, your addition to make our world better.
It isn't the person you are explaining it to's job to understand why your idea is great(and if they do be weary of them because yes people will send you off a cliff quickly), why your story needs to be told, why this will revolutionize ____. I mean with every passing year new people spring up to take the place of people who came before, who have new ideas that hopefully can help us reach new heights and we need those people. Because we each have things we are good at, they may not be the same things, they may not intersect in a way that will produce anything useful. Which is why progress is so hard, which is why some things take not only time, opportunity, and luck but also perseverance. You have to be willing to not only go to the drawing board a few times but to be told your a fool, to be told this will never work.
Because again if anybody could do it, then why would the world be waiting for you? How many stories did edward allen poe have to write before people realized that while creepy his stories were memorable? How about Mary Shelly do you think frankenstein was an easy sell? Da vinci do you think his flying machines weren't seen as the crazy dreams of an otherwise brilliant man? Part of bringing your dream to life is just that, doing that hard work, finding where the puzzle pieces fit, figuring out while this way may work alright, if I do it like this it is even better. Now when you get to a certain point then maybe more people will start to join in and realize hey this is kinda cool. I mean come on, you think nobody every stood around with a green sock on their hand, and yet Jim Henson put some googly eyes on his and the Muppets were born, it may not be easy being green, but I'll be damned if most of us don't have a favorite whether it be kermit, yoda, wembly, gonzo, animal, fozzy(or is it fozzie I never remember), the gelfflings, elmo, Ms. piggy man the list is so long it's really hilarious ain it. If anybody could have created Spiderman would anybody know who Stanley Lieber (bite me, so what if only Stanley Martin Lieber is linked, you have the internet google the rest) was.
You have a dream, your vision of that dream should be the clearest and you should happily bring that vision to the rest of the world so they can see it just like you do whether it's a tale of "long, long ago in a galaxy far far away" or "To boldly go where no man has gone before" until you put it out there none of us will ever know anything about it.
I mean there have been a bunch of rabbits out there as cartoon characters but if I say "Myaaaaah Whats up Doc?" I'm sure only a certain carrot eating cottontail comes to mind, hell I bet you only imagine him with one voice(even though like a lot of cartoon characters he has had a few variations that just like his looks were refined over time until they found the one we all loved). How about long distance communication, there is a pepsi commercial out that details a few of them, but not all we went from going ourselves, to sending other people, to sending birds, to sending people on horses, to sending people on boats, to people on trains, to people on trucks, planes, to morse code and telegraphs, then telephones, then e-mails, text messages, and instant messages. I can guarantee you each time the person who thought of this new way to communicate explained it to somebody they got that old scooby do look "Ruuh? ". It wasn't because it was a lousy idea or because it wasn't feasible it was because it was your dream, your thought, your addition to make our world better.
It isn't the person you are explaining it to's job to understand why your idea is great(and if they do be weary of them because yes people will send you off a cliff quickly), why your story needs to be told, why this will revolutionize ____. I mean with every passing year new people spring up to take the place of people who came before, who have new ideas that hopefully can help us reach new heights and we need those people. Because we each have things we are good at, they may not be the same things, they may not intersect in a way that will produce anything useful. Which is why progress is so hard, which is why some things take not only time, opportunity, and luck but also perseverance. You have to be willing to not only go to the drawing board a few times but to be told your a fool, to be told this will never work.
Because again if anybody could do it, then why would the world be waiting for you? How many stories did edward allen poe have to write before people realized that while creepy his stories were memorable? How about Mary Shelly do you think frankenstein was an easy sell? Da vinci do you think his flying machines weren't seen as the crazy dreams of an otherwise brilliant man? Part of bringing your dream to life is just that, doing that hard work, finding where the puzzle pieces fit, figuring out while this way may work alright, if I do it like this it is even better. Now when you get to a certain point then maybe more people will start to join in and realize hey this is kinda cool. I mean come on, you think nobody every stood around with a green sock on their hand, and yet Jim Henson put some googly eyes on his and the Muppets were born, it may not be easy being green, but I'll be damned if most of us don't have a favorite whether it be kermit, yoda, wembly, gonzo, animal, fozzy(or is it fozzie I never remember), the gelfflings, elmo, Ms. piggy man the list is so long it's really hilarious ain it. If anybody could have created Spiderman would anybody know who Stanley Lieber (bite me, so what if only Stanley Martin Lieber is linked, you have the internet google the rest) was.
You have a dream, your vision of that dream should be the clearest and you should happily bring that vision to the rest of the world so they can see it just like you do whether it's a tale of "long, long ago in a galaxy far far away" or "To boldly go where no man has gone before" until you put it out there none of us will ever know anything about it.
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