Aristo! Aristo! A la lanterne!: Cha Cha Cha Changes....

Monday, June 21, 2021

Cha Cha Cha Changes....

Meself "Hey son, did I tell you I bought myself a pair of sandals?"

Son "WHAT????"

It seems I shook the very foundations of his world, which is a good fatherly thing to do on occasion. HE has been wearing sandals since he was a teenager, and I can't recall him in anything else. An IT professional, supports himself and family quite handily, but 'formal'? Not quite.

Seriously though, I bought myself my first pair of sandals, and that's pretty much all I'm wearing now (Except on range days and such). This caused the thinkening to happen.

I've been wearing work boots since I was 12. Every... single.... day. My legs had a 'boot line' where the boots stopped, and my legs changed shape into the tree trunks they are. Every doctor I ever had looked sideways at that boot line till I explained it.

Before 12, it was sneakers, or just bare feet. Summer, Winter, whatever. 12 and up..... work boots.... cuz that's what a working man wears. For reasons. Work boots represent a man who provides, who does the things. They represent a way of living.

Now I'm wearing sandals, and the boot line is going away. This reflects a massive change in lifestyle, and really drove the point home.

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Robert Heinlein

"Do not confuse "duty" with what other people expect of you; they are utterly different. Duty is a debt you owe to yourself to fulfill obligations you have assumed voluntarily. Paying that debt can entail anything from years of patient work to instant willingness to die. Difficult it may be, but the reward is self-respect.

But there is no reward at all for doing what other people expect of you, and to do so is not merely difficult, but impossible. It is easier to deal with a footpad than it is with the leech who wants "just a few minutes of your time, please — this won't take long." Time is your total capital, and the minutes of your life are painfully few. If you allow yourself to fall into the vice of agreeing to such requests, they quickly snowball to the point where these parasites will use up 100 percent of your time — and squawk for more!
So learn to say No — and to be rude about it when necessary.
Otherwise you will not have time to carry out your duty, or to do your own work, and certainly no time for love and happiness. The termites will nibble away your life and leave none of it for you.

(This rule does not mean that you must not do a favor for a friend, or even a stranger. But let the choice be yours. Don't do it because it is "expected" of you.)"