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It hit me with a flash today. Some people are automatons.
I’ve seen this in two extremes – very bored, and very (too?) successful.
The very bored can be folks stuck in dull, repetitive jobs which they need for the money. There’s no challenge, no variety, no excitement.
He’s the janitor listlessly pushing his mop around the room. She’s the clerk stacking cans at the supermarket. Or the owner of a mechanical-voice that answers your support call from far away across oceans.
Automatons.
The very successful too may become automatons. They build up a shell around themselves, to protect against intimacy with a large crowd that’s eager to get too familiar with them.
They hide behind an ‘artificial’ persona they put on to achieve their success, and then wear for so long that it becomes a habit they effortlessly adopt – while hiding their true selves.
By doing this, they appear emotionless, withdrawn and remote to those interacting with them.
Artificial. Unreal. Weird, even.
Automatons.
I’ve seen doctors, surgeons who became automatons. And big-name marketers. Busy executives. Bureaucrats.
Every time I’ve seen or engaged with one of them, I’ve left with my desire to NEVER become one firmly re-affirmed. No matter what I don’t become, I don’t want to become an…
Automaton.
You?
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