shut me up

1. Think about the worst possible outcome. Is it going to happen? Probably not. Do it. 2. Don’t be the person who drives a wedge between two people. 3. Don’t do anything that could land you on tosh.0 or world’s dumbest. 4. If you love someone, tell them your honest opinion. You owe them that much. 5. Never say you won’t try something. Try everything once. If you don’t like it, don’t do it again. 6. Unless it’s work, don’t do anything that makes you unhappy. Just don’t, okay? 7. Why do you care about what others think? It’s condescending and overused but seriously. Why? 8. Never write anything down you don’t want someone else finding. 9. Turns out overcrowding and the shitty economy have also effected Neverland. Now everyone has to grow up. 10. Everyone knows something you don’t. Find out what it is. 11. Some people will watch you bleed to death and never offer a bandaid. 12. Nacho cheese, when heated, is capable of burning off two layers of your skin. 13. Never let people put words in your mouth. 14. As you get older, people trade in crayola for marlboro. 15. You can’t let the sad times ruin the possibility for happy times. 16. The world is at its most honest at 3AM. Who’s asleep, who’s crying, who’s drinking. Everyone’s vices reveal themselves. 17. Proper grammar is the key to success. *you’re, your, their, there, they’re. 18. EVERYONE thinks Zac Efron is attractive. Whether they’ll admit it or not. 19. Some people only love parts of you. When you show them everything, they’ll run and hide until you bring back the person they want. 20. There is no obligation to keep people around that dim your sparkle. Only keep people around that help you shine.

But the 8-hour workday is too profitable for big business, not because of the amount of work people get done in eight hours (the average office worker gets less than three hours of actual work done in 8 hours) but because it makes for such a purchase-happy public. Keeping free time scarce means people pay a lot more for convenience, gratification, and any other relief they can buy. It keeps them watching television, and its commercials. It keeps them unambitious outside of work. We’ve been led into a culture that has been engineered to leave us tired, hungry for indulgence, willing to pay a lot for convenience and entertainment, and most importantly, vaguely dissatisfied with our lives so that we continue wanting things we don’t have. We buy so much because it always seems like something is still missing.