Monday morning is a time when people recommit to the way that they think that life has to be, when they enter the dominion of other people’s rules, when they lower their gaze and adopt the attitude of security through servility.
To some extent, this attitude is responsible. It’s important to take care of obligations. It is kind to consider the feelings of other people. It is noble to contribute to the common cause of society.
However, this Monday morning, it will do you well to remember that the highest responsibility of any person in a free society is to make a contribution that is derived from one’s individuality. We cannot move our work forward merely by adopting the ideas and behaviors of our neighbors in the next cubicle.
This Monday morning, try to put a dash of irregularity into your day at work. Remember the spirit of advice given long ago by Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Congratulate yourself if you have done something strange and extravagant to break the monotony of a decorous age.”
Sit down, Waldo.
Nothing like Big Oil just comin’ out an’ sayin’ gas is gonna be $5 a gal by Memorial Day. That’s gonna really slow whatever so-called (imagined is more like it) recovery we’re supposed to be experiencing. Obama ain’t gonna like that – it’s gonna put a serious damper on his “good times with Obama” strategy for election day. Looks more like whoever’s in charge is gonna watch the next step down in the collapse.