The Vortex Effect

Do we all have impossible standards? I think this may be one of the major problems I have and most of everyone I know as well. I think that by the time you’re 30 years old, you’ve seen, heard, tasted, felt, and experienced things that are of an excellent nature. Far beyond the normal expectation. You’ve all had a really great meal, had an awesome night out, read a fantastic book or watched a superb movie. So, even though these really above-average things are far and few between, why do we all adjust our expectations from that point on and things that previously might have been thought as ‘pretty good’ drop down to ‘alright’ or even ‘not that good.’ I know that I for one have a really bad tendency of focusing on the negative and gleeming over the positives. Is this something I learned as a child or just a trait that all of us innatekly possess straight from birth? Are we all doomed to be consistently disappointed after experiencing great things? Maybe I’m just a cantankerous asshole who hates everything. Perhaps from now on, I’ll try to list 3 things that are good about any experience before launching into a tirade of truly awful criticisms. For instance, last night, I watched the new Jason Lee sitcom, My Name Is Earl. Now, normally, I might just start talking about how the series had very few laughs, mediocre writing, a half-interesting premise and very toned-down Jason Lee (compared to everything else he’s been in.) But, instead of that (I know, its too late, but what the fuck, this is the whole point) here are 3 things I liked about My Name Is Earl.

1.) The line about running being overkill when Earl and his brother realize that Kenny is gay was pretty funny.
2.) The scene where Earl’s brother tries to cash in the oversized check after Earl cashes the real lottery check was funny.
3.) Earl continually calling Darnell, ‘ClamMan’, was funny.

So there you go. Maybe I’ll keep this up. Maybe not.
Probably not.

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