Disney taught us about the Circle of Life. We go to Disney World and spend our money and Disney takes that money and makes Disney movies where we go to spend whatever money we have left.
Then they use that money to create DVDs that we buy at the store and the DVD money goes to marketing to get us back to Disney World.
Sometimes the circle takes a few years to come back around as with the Native Americans and their lovely casinos. The circle also exists in my town. I pay taxes to my town and that comes back to me in many ways. The town makes me wait for construction that starts on the highway just as rush hour begins. I also see it in the form of road side sobriety check points when it’s clear that I’m not intoxicated yet the officer wants to show me that my taxes are at work by making me perform like a circus chimp.
Sometimes the circle takes a few years to come back around as with the Native Americans and their lovely casinos. The circle also exists in my town. I pay taxes to my town and that comes back to me in many ways. The town makes me wait for construction that starts on the highway just as rush hour begins. I also see it in the form of road side sobriety check points when it’s clear that I’m not intoxicated yet the officer wants to show me that my taxes are at work by making me perform like a circus chimp.
Bullies in high school beat up the geeks and take their lunch money and twenty years later, the geeks own companies that the bullies work for and the geeks get their money back with interest.
We arrive in this world with no memory and no hair and no teeth and the people around us have to do everything for us; after eighty years of growing and learning and evolving, we leave this world with no memory and no hair and no teeth and we have to depend on those around us.
Our first job is at McDonalds or Starbucks or in a large retail store. After attending college and rising up the corporate ladder and making more than our fathers, we retire and take jobs for minimum wage.
Our parents raise us and occasionally yell and give us answers like “because, that’s the way it is” and “because I said so” because that’s what their parents said to them. We say we’ll never treat our kids that way until we grow up and have kids of our own. Then we say the same to our kids after being questioned like we’re a murder suspect:
Child: Why is the grass green?
You: Because grass contains a filament known as chlorophyll.
Child: What’s filament?
You: It’s the thing inside of light bulbs.
Child: What’s a light bulb?
You: Who are you Thomas #$%@ing Edison?
This all occurs with your parents laughing behind you because those are the same questions you asked at that age.
Our parents had normal jobs and some of us break free and start businesses and make lots of money so our kids can have the opportunity to go to college and have normal jobs; so it goes.
I went to college so I could afford to buy all of this great stuff and a house to put it in and now I have to keep working to pay for the house I’m never in with all of the stuff I can’t use because I’m spending all of my time at work. And the hopes is that the house will be worth enough when I stop working so I can afford to live by the beach which is where I used to live for free that summer after college. And maybe I’ll have some money left over for Disney.
