9.14.2006

analysis

one thing i've learned about myself is that i have a very loose trigger. the smallest things annoy me to no end. there's no slope...just a dropoff into a pit of righteous anger. does this make me intolerant? probably. i hate waiting. i hate incompetence. in my view, if a service constantly has lines, then they need to hire more employees or something. figure it out, it's your livelihood. the other day, i asked for 3 towels and a roll of tp from room service. it took them three trips and three more phone calls to get it right. i hate people who walk slowly...even if i'm not in any particular hurry. i hate people who stand on the wrong side of the escalator. i feel very ashamed when i accidentally stand on the wrong side of the escalator.

can i blame this short temperedness on my passport? has america's service standards spoiled me rotten (i never thought i'd say that a couple of months ago)? or has the internet embedded a need for instant gratification? (alright, that sounds pretty sketch, but seriously, multitasking has made it virtually unnecessary to wait for anything. you just click over to the next window/tab and do something else for a while...so if i'm in a line, waiting for a single process to complete, i get really really annoyed) maybe i need to find my zen, but it feels pretty good to be angry...and for the most part, i contain it pretty well (imo). the only concern is whether i'll die in ten years of a heart attack. and i dont' really want wrinkles either.

1 comment:

beth said...

thanks for the support. as much as our parents have raised us to be mini-versions of them, we seem to be doing it all wrong. oh well, life goes on, the world (and the people in it) continues to change, and all we can do about it is change with it.

other than that, though, it's pretty awesome to be asian, right?

hope all is well; sounds like you're slowly settling in. fun times. thanks for reading; sectionals is this weekend!

: )