Marculations

I’ve been hung up on certain things for a few months, and finally, all at once, I’m not hung up on any of them anymore.

I think working on The Last Regret has put things into perspective for me, in a way. The central theme of the movie is, I suppose, we don’t always have time to put off saying how we really feel, or doing what we want to do. That’s the motivation for me, anyway.

Being hung up on the past is a sure fire way to not move forward with anything. You just keep looking back, over-analyzing, trying to figure out what went wrong, or how you can get it back. Were you happier then? Are you just looking at it through rose colored glass? What really will make you happy? These are all cliched issues that everybody has to deal with constantly. Instead of regretting past mistakes, or spending your time analyzing the past and trying to make it right, I think it’s best to just learn from it and move on.

It’s funny to me that for ages and ages, we as a society have dealt with these issues, expounded on them at great length, created many thousands of creative works devoted to the emotions associated with them, and each generation, each member of each generation, has to go through all of them individually and experience them all first hand to truly understand them. Experience really is crucial in these situations. It’s the only way you can mature.

Sheltering people from the consequences of their actions is the worst thing you can do, if you want the person to understand and learn from their mistakes or just from their actions. It’s something that many people strive to do for themselves. They create very complex mental barriers designed to isolate themselves from the results of actions they take. They can usually shrug things off and ignore the problems they create for themselves or others, and explain it away casually. In my experience, though, it’s detrimental to not fully understand the situations you create and the emotions you stir up in yourself through those situations.

I’m not a psychologist by any right, and this is all coming straight from me. I think writing this out is a way for me to sort out how I feel about a topic, and come to terms with my own feelings on it. Either way, I’m merely saying what I think. If it contradicts something I’ve said in the past, well, maybe I’ve changed my mind. Good thing I’m not a politician.

Har har, bartenders are the dumb.

Tips for serving alcohol:

1. Pour liquor into shot glass until full.
2. Give to customer.

Tips for consuming alcohol:

1. Recognize that bigger glasses may have more alcohol in them.

Stop blaming the size and shape of the glass for your inability to stop drinking.

2. Recognize that the bartender couldn’t give two shits how much you drink as long as you leave him a big tip.
3. The configuration of the shot glass wasn’t responsible for you ordering another shot, and neither was the bartender.

This article made me chuckle, for a few reasons. When it got to the part about experienced bartenders not being immune, I lost it. I really, really don’t want to sound degrading or condescending right now, but how much experience does it take to realize that those glasses play little optical tricks on you? I noticed it as soon as I looked at one. Are we entirely sure that the bartenders just don’t care either way?

On that note, as far as pouring shots is concerned, why do you need any experience? I can see mixing a drink requiring a little knowledge (or a little booklet of instructions,) but pouring shots? Come on! I pour shots all the time, and it’s not exactly a science. Tip bottle until liquid comes out. Aim for the glass.

Maybe I’m just biased against bartenders.