Just watched a bit of Zeitgeist – it always makes me more aware of the world. I might not agree with everything, but then again a lot in there is how I feel as well. But yeah, same problem again, how do you start changing the world, which still lives in old ways. There is no way that all people agree to one kind of arrangement.
We can see examples of this in everyday communication as well. People just have difficulties in finding a common language. It can be even a smallest and the most pointless topic. And if a person is willing to defend some unreasonable argumentation, then there is no way that mind can be changed.
Recently I had two arguments, which I can claim with certainty, that these could have been prevented, if both sides would be willing for compromises. Firstly, my boyfriend and I had a serious topic about my financial status and work. The problem was that I have to put my working hours in later afternoon, because I have school. On the other hand, I do not want to lose my job, because it would be more suitable for the employer. In the end, the argumentation was unsolved, because I we physically did not have the strength to fight.
So, what was the point of stressing all these nerves, if communication in the end fails anyway? And even if one of us tries to prove the point in a nice manner, still the one feels being attacked.
Another example is with the person who provides me with this job. We both had a misunderstanding about payment. I tried in a nice manner to explain that this is how things are, but she seemed not to understand at all and be stuck with one line, like she was insulted. So again, a problem unsolved, because two people do not know exactly how to connect with each other.
There are many self-help books for how to communicate with people. I really like that Dale Carnegie suggests staying positive and getting your way with that method. It seems that it makes the people do your way. Dealing with a person, who has a hard day or is just not willing to make any compromises, because he or she does not want, is not stupidity, but as Deepak Chopra puts it - pain in a person and unconscious actions regarding it. Believe it or not, but all our prisons are filled with people like that. (And they call me crazy.)
In the end, I do not think that money is that important to spend your nerves on fighting. And if I cannot do anything about it, then it is not worth the fuzz (Dale Carnegie).
I would like to end this blog with the topic I started with. The Zeitgeist Movement proposes that all people should be more conscious towards our lives. They put in simple words – man, think what is happening around you and whether you like it or not. In the end it is in every person’s free will whether they absorb everything in the society or think outside the tv-box. And Zeitgeist is a good beginning to that direction. At least a persons’ view of the world is not so narrow.
Who has not seen it yet can visit youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/user/TZMOfficialChannel
Did you notice what I just did?
I made a contradiction within this writing. In the beginning I say that there is no way that all people agree to the same thing. In the end I make a certain remark, that people should be more conscious and watch Zeitgeist. So, I like people thinking my way. Heh…
And in the end it is up to every person, because no one is forced to do anything. (Except our society’s who need to fight in Afghanistan. And our governments, who steal money from the people, not only in the US.)
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