Thursday 6 December 2012

Ladders


Don’t you hate ladders. Ultimately you have to climb them, either up or down they’re there to be climbed. And there is another really annoying thing about ladders- you have to start at the bottom. Corporate, social, financial or political- you name a group or sub-group of people and you will find a ladder. Take a look at your private social circle and you’ll see a private social ladder. Someone has power, someone has popularity and if you want to partake in any of it you have to start at the bottom and work your way up. ‘Work’ being the operative word.

Have you noticed the same structure and patterns at your place of employ? Yep. Probably your work ladder is your most annoying because finances are the motivators to crawl your way up to the top rung. There’s probably a swathe of other rung grabbers muscling up your ladder and they are not at all concerned about your safety. In fact every inch you strive upwards probably took more effort than every mile you could ever physically run. With your ankles tied together.

When we spend 'quality time' nurturing our relationships that ugly framework we use to haul ourselves in an upward direction is still prominent and blatantly apparent. Did we remember our anniversary, did we do the dishes, pack the school lunches, compliment when we were supposed to, criticise when we were not? If we didn’t we just dropped a couple of rungs, lost some love points and headed to the bottom of the heap.

It’s all about climbing one way or another and that damned ladder is the means we use to transport ourselves there. 

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