DON'T BE A FOLLOWER! MAKE YOUR OWN DOOR!

I have discussed this several times on my blog and that is how lazy as well a being a follower people can be. Now first of all I would like to say that I'm not perfect. God knows I've made my share of mistakes. I probably make like 1, 2,  maybe 50 mistakes a day. What I'm talking about is the common sense thinks that get me fired up and want to make me smack myself in the head in a back in forth slap motion.

What I would like to touch base on in this post is how many people don't seem to have the ambition or dedication to make their own path. Several years ago I had a job where I had to push a flatbed dolly full of packages. It was for a local college. One of the things I noticed right off the bat was that many times when I would be pushing my cart through the hallway doors only to find a line of students forming a line behind me while I wait for the electronic push button door to activate the doors. My skin would just crawl up my back as I felt the vibes of the students waiting impatiently behind me. 

The door would be opening ever so slowly and they would just wait behind me as if I'm the powerful leader of the line that was forming. I think the thing that I found most amazing is that their were 3 other doors that worked perfectly fine. They were not locked or broken. They opened and closed perfectly fine. 

So many of times I would find myself standing there while the doors are opening slowly wondering "Why are they waiting behind me. The other doors work also" I started thinking that maybe their is some sort of psychology behind this. I would sometimes look behind me inconspicuously to see what the students may be doing. Most of the time they just had a blank dumbfounded stare. Other times they were either on the phone or texting. 

I started to not only find it irritating, but quite amusing. Sometimes even a little sad because I thought "Don't these kids have any ambition?" I decided to start having a little fun. I guess I kind of looked at it as a psychology test. I started taking my time as the doors were opened. Sometimes I would whip out my wallet and start fingering through it as if I was looking for it. Other times I would take out my sell and start looking at it and pushing buttons. I guess for me it was a little game to see how long they would take before they would give in and finally open one of the two doors. I wasn't really doing it to be a jerk. I just couldn't understand why the lack of AMBITION! 

At some points students would give a big breath of disgust and give me a dirty look like "HOW DARE YOU!" as if it the lack of them not using their brain and opening their own door was my fault.

I guess what I'm getting at here is that people in general seem to just be so far out of it. Not focused. Always looking down, texting. It almost feels like a disconnect form people, but when something goes wrong that they don't like they aren't afraid to speak their mind. Just last week I posted a picture on facebook that I guess was inappropriate. I thought it was quite funny until a facebook friend brought his disappointment to my attention. Upon further view I noticed something in the picture I posted that I didn't see before. So ya I guess the post was.

I think the thing that kind of hurt the most though is that the friend that called me on it hardly ever even interacts, comments, posts or even interacts with me, but the moment something was posted that he didn't like I was suddenly important enough for him to let me know of my inappropriate  post. I did immediately take it down. Again! it was a honest mistake. Like I said I make maybe 1, 2, maybe 50 mistakes a day.

What I do try to do however is learn from my mistakes. I try to find my own door and open my own door. I try not to follow. The difficult thing is when you choose to make your own path, open or make your own door you're considered a outcast. That's okay I would take that over following a pack any day.

By the way please excuse the grammar and punctuation. I guess in the middle of my family living on the street when I was a kid, my dad passing away, having a ADD, probably contributed to not learning the correct "Life Skills" I needed to prevent non-sensible, lack of understanding for people that are perfect and always have everything going for them. they don't know what it's like to make your own  path. Everything is Brady Bunch and while they were being put to bed by their mom and dad we were threatened to separate from out brothers and sisters and go to orphanages. 

So when it comes to making my own door, my own entrance I'm used to it. may times that door has hit me in the ass. I have failed many items, but through those fails came TRIUMPHS.

I think maybe we should as magicians use the "DON'T BE A FOLLOWER! MAKE YOUR OWN DOOR" thinking.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21861418

Maybe the magician who stole Jeff McBrides act should of used this type of thinking. So let me get this straight! You work your ass off your whole life and some magi comes along and just steals it form you? WTF!!! Can someone give me this magicians address that stole his act? Maybe I could rip a door out of a jamb and bring it over to him. I won't install a electronic device that will make it easy for him to open it. Instead maybe just a note that says..."We all have the opportunity to make our own doors, our own entrance.  DON'T BE A FOLLOWER! MAKE YOUR OWN DOOR!
-Imaginator-