I was thinking about something...
and then i forgot it, so hence, i will not post about it...
at least until i remember as to what i was going to post about.
In the meantime, i have a suggestion for zach. On the idea of doing something gradiose when you leave Target, here is an idea that i had planned to do, but i did not have the equipment to pull it off.
On your last day, go to the backroom and get the wave. Then, take it to the sales floor, and put speakers on it, and start riding the wave around the store blasting the old "Superman" movie theme music...
that or maybe ride of the valkyries...
Or...for even more fun, you could try playing SlipKnot, and find out how many "impressionables" flock toward you to make you their leader...
Personally though, i like the first or second idea best.
I would have done this, except for the fact that i had no speakers to play the superman music with...but i could have gotten away with it...primarily because i had planned to do this at night, during the christmas overnight stock time.
But still, if i had the chance, it would have been damn funny to do that during the day, and watch all the customers from above as you ride around high above them...like their emperor or something.
Ahhh, which reminds me of the thought about which i was to post about...
It has to do with this whole follower/leader idea. I think, to a degree, everyone likes the idea of being a "leader". This does not mean that everyone comes to enjoy it...but i think at one point everyone wants to feel like they are the leader of something.
i think, in a small sense, james wanted to be seen as leader by others. That is why he complained about it. Up until he said something about having followers, hardly anybody regarded him as a leader...or more to the point, as his "followers"...
{by the way, yes i know that you didn't mean followers in its actual textbook definition...but what the hell. I thought i'd rant about this topic for a bit before i go back to writing more of my research paper.}
It's interesting though, that somewhere inside, most of us like being thought of as leader for a bit, because it appeases some primitive aspect of our personalities...but then once we have it, we really don't want the responsibility of being in charge of anything...
at least, not all of us.
To back up my idea that everyone wants to be a leader of something...
think back to a time when you argued with someone...often someone close like a friend, about who started something, or who's great idea it was to do something, or say something, or be the creator of some great idea.
Part of that is probably due to notoreity {sp?}, but then again so is the mantle of leadership. We all remember the leaders, but have a harder time remembering those "Number 2's" in charge. As far as arguing that you were the founder of a good idea, and not your friend, it makes you the leader of innovation, or change, or creativity.
It's a working theory...
and i really don't necessarily think that it actually applies to james' leader/follower thing...
but he loathing of being one, helped to serve as an example of where i was going...
not that the example made much sense in the end...oh what ever does.
MOnDO35
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