Societal Profiles

The purpose of this article is to attempt to point out several characteristics individuals in society possess causing them to all fall into a group or category. Now I’ll be honest it will be a lot of generalization, and a lot of principles/theories I cooked up myself so please bare with me.

The Doubtful Achievers

The Try-A-Be 

The Flip-Flopers 

The Shadow Dewellers

The Open Books

The Closed Books

The Me, Myself, and I’s

The Frozen Decisionmakers

The Happy Go-Lucky

The Passive Aggressors 

The Sloths

The Risk-takers

The Doubtful Achievers

Who They Are?

In the world, is this group of individuals I’ve titled, “The Doubtful Achievers“. Now these doubtful achievers do exactly what the title states. They achieve, they are successful, and most people who interact with them think about this such person as a great worker. Rather it’s a nice job, a fancy car, a attractive spouse, or something that others find to go with success. They are the great businessmen and women. The powerful and influential polticians and world leaders. The strong and determined worker. One thing that is universal amongst this group is getting work completed. Not only completed, but done in a many that brings about praise and attention. Typically this group has been attributed to be narasstic, stubborn, selfish, unemotional, and several other negative terminology. With success does come a inflated head for some. Yet for others this success brings about a level of jealousy or envy from those less fortunate to not be part of this group.

What Characteristic Makes The Title?
Typically a individual belonging to this group contains a workaholic nature. Driven to the point that they are controlling. Sometimes such individuals can push away even those closest to them. Seperation between social and business is almost non-existent. Frequently their words and lack emotionally consideration. Constantly this group is deemed unemotional or closed-off. Individuals in this group make their way to the top often without even trying. Their natural drive finds them overseeing projects. Yet their cold behavior finds them also on the more negative opinion of those beneath them. So the result is their bosses see a hard worker, who gets jobs done. With their co-workers who they soon ended up higher on the job scale, has a distaste for them. Again let me reiterate on that one end of the spectrum gives them more work because of success with the other spectrum bring about peers who dislike them. The bosses only see the finished project and the peers only see a narrastic a**hole. With the Doubtful Achievers being stuck between such a tough position. Privately typically the result is deep  down, the individual has a lack of self-confidence. Ironically, secretly this person finds themselves a failure. Yet due to the necessarity to stay to the achievements, the individual publicly seems confidence and self-assured. When the opposite holds true.

The Pros of Being This Title?

The Pros of being a Doubtful Achiever are self-explanatory.  Success is unavoidable. Admiration is unavoidable. Financial stability will come. Even for some point of time confidence and a high self-esteem. Good work habits. Great management skills. Strong communication skills with regards to business and professional affairs.

The Cons of Being This Title?

Now the Cons of being a Doubtful Achiever are numerous. Difficulties connecting with people on a personal level. Typically emotionally cut-off or blocked. In time a suffered self-esteem. Having split personalities: one dedicated to work, with the second privately expressed. As if you are wearing a Guy-Fawkes mask. Weak communication on a social level. Isolated tendencies.

End Results?

The end results of being a Doubtful Achiever are quick simply. You will be one of the best in your work life. You will climb the work environments ladder until you are close or on the top. Yet it will come at the cost of struggled connection with people. Relationships will be difficult to keep. Your partner will feel you always “put work first”. You can never truly be more than your achieves. Look forward to difficulties opening up emotionally.

Final Assessment?

My final assessment of the Doubtful Achiever is that while having perks that will keep you feed, a roof over your head, and luxuries some dream of. You will struggle to have people in your life. Unless you are fine with success in everything but with people. This group is for you.

Home Sweet Home No Gone Forever Gone

One of the most interesting changes in my life . . . has to be with the recent developments with my feelings regarding words like “home”, “place of belonging”, “mi familia”, and I could go on and on. Sadly it would be very repetitive and would very likely bore you to death. Within the last year, I’ve met some amazing people. People who affected my life, people I hope to know for a lifetime. Ironically, these people are from different walks of life than I am. Financially, racially, religiously, culturally, morally, and I could add to the list. Despite the distance, the bond was made.

With this new bond, I felt my purpose and goals renew. My faith in people placed in a new perspective, and my fears conquered. Yet this is where the climax of the story is reached. Where the plot becomes juicy and tender. Where it’s savory scent of the unexpected outcomes hangs in the air. Where you are stuck with the protagonist(me) dealing with two fields of grass. One field being that which for a long portion of my life I’ve ran and played in. The other field being freshly sown. As I considered both fields, all I could think of was “the grass isn’t always greener on the other side”. Quite contrary to popular notion, this new grass was greener and not itchy. Yet when I was forced to return to the old grass. I was relived to find grass from the new field stuck in the soles of my shoes and grass stains on my clothes. I was able to keep those small fragments of that grass with me. A constant reminder of where I sought to be.

See I grew up in a small, yet infamous city. Compton California, zip code 90220. My goal and aspiration was to fix my city’s broken school district. To repair my city’s degressive local government. More so, a school district that doesn’t primarily focus on the students academic success. One that doesn’t provide all the resources for the teachers to properly equip students for education beyond a high school diploma. Now don’t get me wrong, both Compton Unified’s Board of Trustees and Compton Unified’s Superintendent provide partially for the 20+ schools in the district. Yet one: they only provide when beneficial to their own image and two: are part of two and three other political roles. Compton Unified’s Board of Trustees use their role as School Board members primarily as a stepping stone or achievement in their developing political careers. Self-progression remains a priority over farther development of the school district.

So you might now ask yourself this, “What in the hell does that rant have to do with anything!” Coming home to the worn, drying grass has been one of the toughest obstacles to face. Giving me a sense of being a foreigner in a familiar place. Back home, there is a survival of the fittest, eat or be eating mentality. There is no sense of partnership. No sense of community. There is no “One for All, All for One”. Just you, me, and the other guys. To be quite blunt, it is the root of all things dark in my city. As one of few that came every few years, I seek to avoid being one of the damned. This city . . . My city raised me. Made me the person I am. Every obstacle and struggle became the casting for the person I was shaping to be. There is only one problem, this no longer feels like home. Yet it is still home. But doesn’t have the feeling to it. You know when you walk in your house on Thanksgiving or on Christmas. And you know you will smell food being cooked in the kitchen. The wonderful aroma’s of turkey and ham, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, and other delicacies on Thanksgiving and the smell of pine trees and the laugh of children open gifts on Christmas. When that starts to feel cold and weary. When that doesn’t lift you heart like it once did. When all you want to do is get as far as possible away from it all. Then you’ll truly grasp my words. When it all starts to feel like a prison. As if I’ve been robbed of my freedom. I’ve only been robbed of the other grass. I just want to leave and come back when I want to. I no longer want to feel Iike a Inmate, but feel like the Warden. 

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

May the Macro Squad forever find success in everything they do. The Ben 10 will forever be united as brothers. #Stanford2k14