Wingin' itThis morning, as I was working on a pretty detailed class schedule to be placed onto our website, I was told to just "wing it" when I asked for confirmations about several dates. I stopped my supervisior in mid-sentence and reminded him that not only was this schedule going to be online but also be part of our volunteer database. All data needed to be secured and confirmed before I went live with it.
The mentality of "wingin' it" is so completely foreign to me. I am starting to realize, however, that it is wholly American approach to life and everything it contains... self, relationships, business, politics. The fact that we aren't in the slightest bit interested in being accountable for our actions makes everything that we do half-assed and ultimately worthless.
This morning's exchange with my supervisor reminded me of the Greatest American Hero. How perfect William Katt's reluctant superhero summed up the American approach to life. We don't know what to do with ourselves or how to handle ourselves or clean up the messes we've created in the process? Fuck it, it doesn't matter. We're just wingin' it!
posted by megan at 1:00 PM
1 Comments:
Ok, so I clearly don't know you so don't take this too seriously. But it sounds like you need to lighten up a bit. Yes, winging it isn't exactly the best way to go through life and I agree that in as a society (americans) in general are a little to laissez-faire about life. But seriously you can't plan and confirm everything in life. The purpose of life isn't to get everything perfect every time. The way it sounds like you're going... you're trying to get to the end of your life in a body with no damage having done nothing wrong ever. You don't learn without making mistakes... and you might as well do some crazy things and get some scars, because no one is using your body when you're done with it.
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