Feeling good enhances everything. That’s what life should be all about. Don’t believe me? Ok, analyze Jamaican culture…even if you are the most boring person in your family, you’d still know how to crack a joke off of some random occurrence that happens during the course of any given day. It’s inherent. There’s no possible way to not find some humour in situations, no matter how messed up it is. Jamaicans seem to have a knack at finding reality interesting, but yet we still don’t seem to realize that life would be cooler if we could do that all the time.
We seem to have a mental block against trying to feel good about life on a regular basis, because that must be the reason why people don’t like when they see other people enjoying life and endeavouring to life it to the fullest. “Badmine” is like the order of the day. Of course there are some who don’t go about making other people’s business their own but they are so far and in between that it makes those types of people seem like endangered species. So... eventually things get complicated, and that makes a bad situation turn into hell. Nothing gets better and it starts to make our culture deteriorate. Nothing feels good anymore.
Now we automatically start thinking about family living abroad or all your girlfriends that live there too and start to shortlist the best candidates that would be willing to file for your hopeless self. All because life is starting to get a little bit too stressful; or should I still say “Fucked up”. This mindset is so common that Jamaicans in Miami, NY, London or any other foreign country make highly populated Jamaican communities feel a little too cluster phobic. They are almost everywhere, but it doesn’t necessarily have a good effect. If you left Jamaica with the “Badmine” mentality, you’d just get sucked up into America’s "entrapment culture" and other “illusions” from other cultures faster than immigrants from different countries, and you’d spend more time wasting time.
I only wish that our society would embrace the concept of thinking for one’s self and aiming to become self-sufficient. What the hell is wrong with that concept? Wasn’t it our ancestors who made it possible to understand the meaning of the word “freedom”? Wasn’t that supposed to be the vision of our own Marcus M. Garvey and great men like Hailie Selassie? Or better yet, a guy by the name of Martin Luther King and another called Malcom X… how come we seem to forget about those people so fast when they were here more recently than “the one who was sent to die on the cross for us”? Weren’t they black just like us too or is it just a typical case of “Badmine”?
I don’t seem to get it, nor do I think I want to… but I guess “a suh it jus set”. I just think I’m more important than concentrating about another person’s lifestyle. I've got mine to worry about, so since those people want to use their energy doing that, I think I’ll use all my energy to feel good about myself. It seems to make everything less stressful… makes sense, doesn’t it?
We seem to have a mental block against trying to feel good about life on a regular basis, because that must be the reason why people don’t like when they see other people enjoying life and endeavouring to life it to the fullest. “Badmine” is like the order of the day. Of course there are some who don’t go about making other people’s business their own but they are so far and in between that it makes those types of people seem like endangered species. So... eventually things get complicated, and that makes a bad situation turn into hell. Nothing gets better and it starts to make our culture deteriorate. Nothing feels good anymore.
Now we automatically start thinking about family living abroad or all your girlfriends that live there too and start to shortlist the best candidates that would be willing to file for your hopeless self. All because life is starting to get a little bit too stressful; or should I still say “Fucked up”. This mindset is so common that Jamaicans in Miami, NY, London or any other foreign country make highly populated Jamaican communities feel a little too cluster phobic. They are almost everywhere, but it doesn’t necessarily have a good effect. If you left Jamaica with the “Badmine” mentality, you’d just get sucked up into America’s "entrapment culture" and other “illusions” from other cultures faster than immigrants from different countries, and you’d spend more time wasting time.
I only wish that our society would embrace the concept of thinking for one’s self and aiming to become self-sufficient. What the hell is wrong with that concept? Wasn’t it our ancestors who made it possible to understand the meaning of the word “freedom”? Wasn’t that supposed to be the vision of our own Marcus M. Garvey and great men like Hailie Selassie? Or better yet, a guy by the name of Martin Luther King and another called Malcom X… how come we seem to forget about those people so fast when they were here more recently than “the one who was sent to die on the cross for us”? Weren’t they black just like us too or is it just a typical case of “Badmine”?
I don’t seem to get it, nor do I think I want to… but I guess “a suh it jus set”. I just think I’m more important than concentrating about another person’s lifestyle. I've got mine to worry about, so since those people want to use their energy doing that, I think I’ll use all my energy to feel good about myself. It seems to make everything less stressful… makes sense, doesn’t it?
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