Insert the Buckle
This is related to the previous post. I was sitting on the plane to Pittsburgh the other day listening to the stewardess tell everyone how to buckle their seatbelts. After almost a century of road and air travel we’re still worried about informing everyone how to use the seatbelt. Are we afraid that we missed someone? Or are we just afraid of change?
Dick Clark announced the New Year. Tom Petty played the superbowl. Every infomercial still uses the same voice. Rambo. Indiana Jones. American Gladiatoros. Knight Rider. A lot of people are spending a lot of money betting on the fact that we will always gravitate towards something we know. And we will won’t we? Yes, I saw Rambo. Yes there were a lot of guys with me. Yes I shouted at the screen. (No don’t go see it). But it makes me wonder how much I’ve wasted by just doing the normal, the comfortable, the ordinary. How much time, effort, money have I spent just trying to keep things the same, and do things because that’s how they’ve always been done? How many times have I missed purchasing the oil field because I was looking to buy a parking lot? How much time on the ground has been wasted by having to hear about how to use the seat cushion in the event of a water landing while flying from Missouri to Nebraska?
Dick Clark announced the New Year. Tom Petty played the superbowl. Every infomercial still uses the same voice. Rambo. Indiana Jones. American Gladiatoros. Knight Rider. A lot of people are spending a lot of money betting on the fact that we will always gravitate towards something we know. And we will won’t we? Yes, I saw Rambo. Yes there were a lot of guys with me. Yes I shouted at the screen. (No don’t go see it). But it makes me wonder how much I’ve wasted by just doing the normal, the comfortable, the ordinary. How much time, effort, money have I spent just trying to keep things the same, and do things because that’s how they’ve always been done? How many times have I missed purchasing the oil field because I was looking to buy a parking lot? How much time on the ground has been wasted by having to hear about how to use the seat cushion in the event of a water landing while flying from Missouri to Nebraska?
posted by KAN at 7:52 PM
4 Comments:
Words written wisely my friend! It has been too long since we last danced the night away. Let's go dancing soon!
Wes
Good post my friend. We should talk soon. Here is an exchange from a great movie that you should see, Kicking and Screaming (1995, Noah Baumbach).
Take care, Matt
Max: I'm too nostalgic. I'll admit it.
Skippy: We graduated four months ago. What can you possibly be nostalgic for?
Max: I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I can't go to the bar because I've already looked back on it in my memory... and I didn't have a good time.
Hmmm...it has been over TWO MONTHS since Kent posted. Me thinks it is about time you threw your readers a bone and posted. Just a little something. And updated your background because it is spring and the winter stuff is kind of depressing at this stage.
kent i know you might not see this because you haven't updated your blog in months.. but.. i have witnessed with my own eyes in the last month people who were unable to figure out how to buckle their seatbelt on an airplane.
this is me not joking.
hey so.. we're (yes I said WE're) coming back this summa!!! hooray! i'm feeling a puerta vallarta reunion
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