Calm down. Breathe. It's not the end of the world.
I'm in a much better mood today. Road trips can sometimes do that, release stress that has been building up for weeks. I feel better. Refreshed. Energized. On the way to work today I was listening to the radio, which is a rare. What's really on the radio these days worth listening to? You can hear the latest piece of pop garbage coughed up by Nsync or BSB.. you can hear the "cool" hard rock stations who play the same four songs over and over again or you can put on the R & B station, which has a plethora of songs which sound exactly the same, some guy or a group of guys singing about a girls underwear or how they did it in the shower. Anyway.....nothing I want to listen to when I first wake up. Some talk show was on and they were talking about the controversy of cloning. Some people are for it for the numerous medical breakthroughs it could produce. Others shun it and claim it to be immoral and inhuman. And as these thoughts bounce around my head as I walk into the cubicle jungle, I started thinking to myself, What's the big deal? These people have been clones for years. Think about it. They all dress the same. Hair styles you can put into 3 categories 1)buzz 2)mullet 3) something they saw on FRIENDS but the real thing that bothers me is their SAMENESS. They are so alike it is frightening. Zero personality. Its like they traded their individualism for a pair of Khaki pants and suspenders. Their fake pleasantness is enough to make you puke. They laugh at their stupid jokes. They talk about things they really have no interest in. A thousand business casual soldiers marching together like ants. People are so afraid to be different. Working here makes me remember a line from the Shawshank Redemption: When you first come here you hate these walls. But as time goes by you get used to them, and eventually its so you can't live without them. I wonder if that's what has happened to these people.... They built their own prison and left their personalities at the door. A thousand men and woman cut from the same mold. Its not just sad, its horrifying.