God, I remember when I was a little kid I once said something like, “When I grow up, I’m gonna be a boss, so that way I won’t have to work for anybody” — and the grown-up with me said, “Well, you can’t just become a boss. You need to work hard and get promotions and then you’ll be a boss. So you’ll still need to work a whole awful lot to reach that level. Do you think you have it in you?”
…I was very disappointed to learn that I couldn’t escape working by just wishing really hard.
With time I’d eventually come to learn that it was not only impossible to wish oneself out of working, but that the grown-up’s line about “working really hard” was bogus, too.
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
God, I remember when I was a little kid I once said something like, “When I grow up, I’m gonna be a boss, so that way I won’t have to work for anybody” — and the grown-up with me said, “Well, you can’t just become a boss. You need to work hard and get promotions and then you’ll be a boss. So you’ll still need to work a whole awful lot to reach that level. Do you think you have it in you?”
…I was very disappointed to learn that I couldn’t escape working by just wishing really hard.
With time I’d eventually come to learn that it was not only impossible to wish oneself out of working, but that the grown-up’s line about “working really hard” was bogus, too.
Sent from Mdewakanton Dakota lands / Sept. 29 1837
Treaty with the Sioux of September 29th, 1837
“We Will Talk of Nothing Else”: Dakota Interpretations of the Treaty of 1837