Unlike my rant on Time, I’ll make this post brief and a bit more to the point, less of a long and winding yellow brick road to my frustration. Partially because I don’t feel anything for this book. Not in a ‘I’m gonna take this book/author to task’ way but just matter of factly. In general after reading this book I was just kind of like ‘yep, that’s true’. I was not reveling in a new found batch of knowledge.  Just mulling over previous things I’ve thought. And this is the way I’ve felt about the other two books we’ve read. At the end of the day, this is stuff I’ve thought about or taken into consideration. The most I can say about it was that chapter 7 was something I wish I’d read before going into the job world.

So why are these books being written? Probably because even the silliest things go right over people’s heads. At my work, for an analogy, we have a plate called a three meat plate. You get to choose your meats. Half the time when I ask people what three meats they want, they are surprised and thought it was just like a random numbered plate with a meat. Doesn’t say that anywhere, there’s not a number sign or anything to suggest that. And yet here we are. I believe that this is because the most obvious things in life we tend to look over.

We should just ask the girl out, we should say clearly and precisely how we feel to people, and you should actually give a shit about your employees. These are blatant obvious solutions to problems. What we fear is the unknown. Whether that be the girl we ask out’s reaction, someone being rough with our fragile feelings, our employees loosing respect for us and in effect our authority. This is also what makes the cosmic horror genre work. The unknown is fucking terrifying because there is no beginning and there is no end, there just is the current. Whether this relates to The Void or girls/dating in general, it’s still a terrifying concept.

The worst unknown is ourselves. Right now I’m mixing a song that I’ve been working on now for over a year. Musically I think it’s fine and I’m as happy with it as I can be. I have lyrics and an idea of how to sing it but I hate the sound of my voice because it doesn’t sound like how I think. It sounds familiar and alien all at once. Everyone goes through this but it really gets in the way of me singing my music. Which is a hurdle I’m going to begrudgingly overcome.

That’s all for my thoughts at the moment.