You Can’t Tell Me What To Do!

I am grown and nobody tells me what to do. I am my own person. I have a job, I provide for myself and really don’t have to bow down and do others biddings. I’m very independent and make my own way in life all by myself. I do things my way like the song “I Did It My Way.” I’m sure you’ve heard those and many other phrases from those who think they don’t have to do what others say.

These are the people who have chips on their shoulders and look at life and others through jaded concepts. All is not right with them on most days and they tend to live in the negative from day to day. I’m not sure if they recognize or even consider the following things people have told them to do without speaking out loud to them.

If you have a job you will work for a certain number of contracted hours and you will be told what time to take a break and to have lunch.
If you shop whether for groceries or clothes you will shop in stores according to their hours.
If you go to the doctor, dentist, or optometrist, there are hours set that you can go into their offices and after that you are told to go to the emergency room.

If you drive a car you must buy gas at the offered price if you want to get to your destination.
If you want to eat out, you pay the cost of the meal.
If you fly from one destination to the other, you fly according to their schedule and not always your own. If you go anywhere in this world, you will go when they tell you to go.

In the United States you have more options concerning when, where and what time you can do those things you want to do. If you were in another country you would be severely limited as to when and how you handle your business. Other places on foreign soil are thankful for the privileges of being able to take care of their business with the choices they have even if the are few.

They don’t use the previous phrases to govern their discontentedness. They use the choices without many complaints. They live within the structure of being told what to do. Living within the guidelines of the structure is not to deny you rights and privileges but to allow you to live without constant confusion.

The structure is in place to give order to your days; to help you navigate through life with the fewest of interruptions along the way. In order to have fewer interruptions you have to do what others tell you to do because they have paved the way through experience in what not to do. Whether they speak to you directly or indirectly all of your life you will do what someone has told you to do. The next time you say don’t tell me what to do, remember someone already has.