2015-01-18
23 分钟Hello,
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It's a funny story.
I was at a sports bar the other day and I completely humiliated myself and I walked into the place loud music blaring in my ears,
right?
100 plus TVs lined the wall just plastered the wall all playing different kinds of sports games basketball football baseball whatever you want to see and the entire place was empty
like I was truly the only guy in this entire restaurant I saw a tumbleweed blow past me in the distance and I walk up to the counter and I sit down and this nice gentleman greets me from behind the counter and apparently I didn't realize it
as I was doing it but apparently as I'm soaking in the atmosphere I was looking around and kind of smiling right and this guy by on the counter walks out to me he's like hey look at this guy he's feeling good right now aren't you yeah hey why are you smiling man and I was like to be honest I can't think of a really good reason not to be smiling right now I'm happy he's like well why are you happy and I say
because I'm talking to you in this wonderful place here and at this point he gets a really serious look on his face and he leans in really close to me and he says no man why are you happy why are you happy now at this point I'm like oh my god this guy's a philosopher I got I should have known right this is the Socrates a buffalo wild wings he just finds random people he asks him why they're happy he tries to get to the bottom of exactly what makes them grateful to be a lie I like this guy so at this point I feel
like he's not satisfied by my disingenuous pleasantries I'm gonna go into the more full honest answer about why I'm happy so I give it to him oh my god you guys ever do something that's so embarrassing you just like you think back to it and you cringe your stomach is just eating at you why do our bodies do that is it anyway so I look at this guy and I say do you know why I'm happy
because I feel like a king right now in fact I feel like one of the most privileged kings that's ever lived in the history of mankind I'm serious I just look at my life right now and I compare what I have at my disposal with what every other generation of humans have had at their disposal and to be honest it's impossible not to be smiling I mean think about it in the context of this one little piece of my day I drove down here in my giant metal horse right it took me five minutes to get here except my metal horse has the power of 200 horses and I can go anywhere I want on a moment's notice I come here to your fine establishment that's that's well lit and safe and clean and a servant writes down my request no offense of what my professional chef is going to be preparing for my cheat meal that week oh and by the way there's such an abundance of high calorie professionally prepared food in the world that I have to limit myself to one meal a week so
that I don't eat myself to death so
as I sit here waiting for my chef prepared food to arrive I'm constantly entertained by these magic boxes all around me I mean think about it 500 channels all competing for my attention they have a team of people at their headquarters constantly honing their programming constantly fine-tuning things trying to create the best product they possibly can so
that I watch their channel instead of the other 499 channels and
if at any point I'm bored of these options I can always go to the internet an endless sea of entertainment competing for my eyeballs youtube videos blog posts podcast all vying for my attention and right now my newest bartending friend I've chosen to watch sports right I don't even watch sports
that much and despite that this guy on the tv screen
that I'm looking at he's been killing himself all week long for my benefit this guy's been running laps this guy's been lifting weights in the gym pushing his body to its absolute extreme all week during practice to get to a place where he can show up on saturday and not just try to perform well for me but put on the best performance he's ever put on in his life he's going to try to do superhuman things just so
that I'm going to be entertained so I'm happy and I'm smiling