Saturday, April 22, 2006

Pop quiz hot shot:

What's the difference between having high standards, and knowing what you want? Or maybe they go hand in hand. I sometimes think I have high expectations of people, meaning that in the slightest thing they do wrong (or at least wrong in my mind) my respect for them could drop even just a little bit, or considerably (like a guy at work who says he has been thinking about divorcing his wife basically so he has more money to spend on his motorcycle(s) and without a nagging wife!). But at the same time, I just think it's more that I know what I want, and anything less just disgusts me. Maybe this is a dilemma of ethics and morality. I don't know. I'm sure that's part of it. It just gets aggrevating sometimes because it seems that no one and nothing really fits the ideal. Expectations are never met. Now this deals a lot with people, so there is that whole "human error" thing, but where did we go wrong? Tori: The "ideal" isn't in superficial things like appearance, though. It's about who people are and what they stand for. Everything just seems so chaotic because almost no one stands for anything, and therefor don't really become the greatest of people to be around (most of which I wouldn't mind never having to see again). There are no standards and values anymore. There isn't any preservation of what was once held sacred. It just seems like everything is in a great decline. This isn't where I have expected people to be, this is looking at how we've been in the past, and looking at where they are now. Knowing that young people are the future, I can't say I'm that fired up about what's to come. It's like that "telephone" game. You say maybe three sentences to one person, who then tells them to the next, and the next, and the next. And chances are, by the time they get to the last person, the sentences aren't remotely what they once were.

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