I'm On Hold....In Hell...
Holly Standing On Kara...
Darin Killing Nick...
“The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more you must allure the senses to it”
Do you ever feel like when your just getting somewhere with customer service, they ask you to hold? Do you ever have the feeling the next corner was the finish line, but something held you up? Has your worst days, your most hellish experiences prolonged by, "hold please".
I wager we are put on hold, be it phone, life, computer, career, relationships, simply because we allow ourselves to be; simply because we put so much of our self-worth on the outward opinion others have of us. I wager the reason our darkest days are so dark is because we are latching on to someone, any one willing to take us off of hold, instead of hanging up the %$#&ing phone and choosing a better way. Or better yet, some calls are better to be left un-made.
Policy:
Take this scenario for instance. In emergency situations, life or death matters or comparable, there is still "policy" to be had. The powers that be will assure you the "policy" is for the good of the afflicted. But is it? Is the policy possible two-fold? Meaning, sure 911 wants to help your ass....but they want to save their own as well.
When did doing the right thing, become doing the right thing only if I know I will be cool when I do it, and have no recourse after I "try" to help. When did we turn into "policy" driven species instead of "heart" driven creatures. When did circumstance dictate, not only if help is warranted, but what level of help, and in the end, who really benefits from help in the first place.
Bureaucracy:
Where policy ends, Bureaucracy begins. Policy is more a guide, or step by step process. Bureaucracy is more a hierarchy of rigid systems with red tape out the ass.
Call your cell phone provider one time and you will see. Your first gatekeepers are the new employees on the job. Kids out sourced all over the world faking an english accent. If they can't figure it out, you guessed it, they put you on hold until the four to six monthers pick up. All in all if your issue is complex enough you will have to meet with quite a few blockades on your road to the A-team. And interestingly enough, that A-Team still answers to someone....we all do.
These levels of stacking department after department, politician after politician, and dial tone after dial tone may well have served to begin this great nation of ours. But damn sure enough if today it doesn't prevent most beauty from happening. That is of course if you try the tradition means of progression. Traditional meaning, two steps forward....hold...one step back.
Suffocation:
If you have stayed with me until now, then what I am trying to paint is a picture of human misery we are allowing ourselves to artfully be a part of. We have set so many rules up to protect our "stuff" it serves to put us on hold. On hold from our lives. On hold at the most importune times. On hold instead of free. Essentially suffocatinging all that is good inside us. All that was beautiful is now a %#$^ing 1970's recording played ad nauseum while we try to get comfortable six feet under.
Great, that's all well and good you say, but how do I move forward? If your so good at spotting the shit, how do I clean it up????
Hang The Hell Up....
The only way to avoid un-ending policies, is to write your own, and then break them just because you can. The only way to ignore bureaucracy is to turn your back on it, but still be in it's way so they can watch you succeed despite them. The only way to prevent feeling inadequate, caged, buried, is to stop playing by rules that make us more like lawyers and less like humans. The only way to spend life on the edge absorbing all it has to offer, as opposed to the other end of a silent dial tone is to be human caring about humans...not consumers caring about stuff.
Sartre may have been almost spot on. Hell may very well be other people....people on the other line putting you on hold....forever.
Strength:
Front Squat-12 Minute limit
1,1,1,1,1
rest 2 minutes
For Time:
12-Front Squats 95/135
25-Burpees
35-Double Unders
4 rounds
Post weight moved and time to comments.
145 front squat (PR)
14:54
Posted by: heather mc | January 24, 2011 at 07:37 AM
FS-105PR
19:52m
Posted by: vicki | January 24, 2011 at 07:39 AM
120 PR front squat
22:36
Posted by: Mo | January 24, 2011 at 08:51 AM
105 front squat
22:22(m)
Posted by: Angela | January 24, 2011 at 09:05 AM
165 (PR)
16:11
Posted by: runmelrun | January 24, 2011 at 09:54 AM
115 (PR)
26:?? (FS:85pds!!!)
Posted by: Renee | January 24, 2011 at 10:08 AM
120 PR
16:46 M
Posted by: jen w | January 24, 2011 at 10:44 AM
lookin good Betharoni and KARA FOSTER ON THE GAMES PAGE! Swing those kettlebells
Posted by: holly | January 24, 2011 at 03:16 PM
i like that pics of me and Kara M. next time im gonna push harder though so she's not smiling! :) :(
Posted by: holly | January 24, 2011 at 03:18 PM
205 front squat (PR)
21:28 on wod
Posted by: Chuck T | January 24, 2011 at 06:35 PM
95lb FS (PR) -- think I could have done 105, but hit PR, so I let it rest.
24:??m, 75lb FS (excited--this was my 1 rep max in the late fall, and I did 48 of them today!!!)
Posted by: Mindy | January 24, 2011 at 07:12 PM
255 front squat
14:28
Posted by: Franchise | January 24, 2011 at 07:32 PM
115 Frpnt Squat
17:38 (M)
Posted by: Kasey | January 24, 2011 at 07:51 PM
95 Front Squat
17:59 (M)
Posted by: Heidi | January 24, 2011 at 07:52 PM
275 fs
15:34
Posted by: #10 | January 24, 2011 at 08:17 PM
175 FS
14:57
Posted by: Min | January 24, 2011 at 08:19 PM
125# FS
20:57 (m) for 75# FS
Posted by: Dana | January 24, 2011 at 08:30 PM
front squat 165 lbs pr by 40 lbs
25:00(m)
Posted by: JN | January 24, 2011 at 09:07 PM
195 fs
15;55
Posted by: chas | January 24, 2011 at 09:55 PM
175 fs (pr)
9:27 - 2 rds instead of 4 :(
Posted by: Rachael | January 25, 2011 at 08:56 AM
175# Front squat
16:34 (m for DUs..)
Posted by: Jen D | January 25, 2011 at 11:11 AM
235 FS
Posted by: NP | January 25, 2011 at 12:10 PM