I’ve spoken with a number of young females lately, in the 21 to 26 year old range, who have complained to me about their meaningless, dead end jobs. One worked in a call center for a time share resort company, another was a dispatcher for a town car service and yet another had gone from fast food to barista to au pair and, finally, to flat out unemployment.
Aside from all having s~~~ty, soul crushing jobs that were going nowhere, they had two other things in common. The first was that each one talked a lot about their dreams and get-rich business plans… wild ideas about becoming a travel journalist or starting a non-profit animal rescue foundation or running an Amazon drop shipping company and so forth. The other thing they had in common is that none of them ever did any of these things.
They’d get an inspiration from somewhere (some glib romeo talking them up at a bar, most likely) and then blabber to me about going “all-in” on their strategy to build a business personally guiding people through potentially confusing public spaces (“Because I went to New York for three days and I was so impressed at how well I navigated the airport!”) and they’d want to call or come over and yammer about it all night over drinks and yeah, I’d play along and offer some advice (as a successful entrepreneur of 28 years) and then three days later I’d ask if they had done the business related reading I had suggested and they’d act like they had no idea what I was talking about.
Those ideas and the dreams, excitement and passion that went with them were about as solid and practical as my intention to rent a pair of Korean hookers for the weekend two seconds after blowing a load on my computer keyboard. “Hookers, what? I don’t even like Koreans. Wonder what’s in the fridge…”
This brings us to the point (finally!) There is a third thing all these economically ineffective females have in common… yoga.
Here’s the theory… yoga is what females do when they’re too lazy or stupid to be successful in the working world. Yoga is females attempting to find meaning in their lives by trying to be hot. That’s it. Pseudo-spiritual bulls~~~ aside, females who do yoga are doing nothing more than worshipping themselves and trying to make a “life’s calling” out of the act. It’s pure narcissism in somatic form.
I knew a female several years ago… she was my fiancé for three weeks once, in fact… who, when I first met her, was an accomplished and dedicated emergency surgery nurse. At that time her mind was tight and focused and she was lean and hard from the nearly constant work. She was also an amateur but skilled belly dancer (if you’ve never seen Japanese belly dancers, you should) and performed with a troupe in restaurants and other event spaces.
Later on in our relationship and as her interest in belly dancing became more of a “self-fulfillment” thing, she quit her nursing job to spend the summer at a beach front property that caters to the would-be stoner surfer drum circle contingent of Japanese culture drop-outs. Freed from the drudgery of her difficult but emotionally rewarding job, she was free to explore the open spaces of DIY spirituality and LOHAS bulls~~~ (Lifestyles Of Health And Sustainability) that the guru types feed to hot impressionable females in order to f~~~ them.
That’s about the time I started to give up on her. And now, three years after our aborted engagement, she’s moved on to yoga and has become an instructor. I’d be willing to bet a month’s salary that, while she’d say she’s the happiest she’s ever been, she’s actually worse off emotionally than ever.
These females have convinced themselves that yoga is spiritual, structured, healthy and meaningful… it has all the hallmarks of purposeful action but with zero practical results. It’s essentially a sink for time and effort that returns nothing but a false sense of direction and accomplishment, serving only the ego and the need to be surrounded by a groupthink society that never challenges, criticizes or expects anything more from her than that she wear tight pants, bend over a lot and look good doing it.
This is where the ambitious females end up when they realize that all the power and independence they thought they wanted for themselves actually required effort and responsibility. One can only imagine where the truly lazy ones come to rest… I imagine it involves lots of couches, chocolates and daytime TV.
girandhopper 4 years, 11 months ago.
