Today we are talking about 3 different issues, Opposite Day (why that will never be the name of a day), Rebellion (the innate response every person has inside of them) and Applebee's (Never go to the one in Watsonville, Ca). These three topics have occurred often lately, so I thought I should speak about them.
First, Opposite Day. There will never be a day called opposite day, because if there was a day dedicated to doing the opposite, by definition the name of the day should be declared as opposite of what it is supposed to be, because it is opposite day...or actually same day! But if you think about it, who would actually follow the rules of a day that is named Same Day. It would be the same as every other day. Then again, if we think about what we do everyday, one very common occurrence is easy to see: rebellion!
(step 2) The definition of rebellion is resistance to or defiance of any authority, control or tradition. Everyday we rebel against something, whether we notice it or not. In our individuality, we are rebelling against all cultures that claim you to be in line with everyone else. In our religion, we are rebelling against every other religion that claims to be the truth. In our everyday live at home, we raise children the way we believe is best, rebelling from what your parents may have done, or the countless books written by childless counselors. In our work, when asked to preform a specific task we preform it in the way that we have learned to be most efficient and beneficial to ourselves, rebelling from the way other people do it, or the way your manager trained you to do it. And one that everybody does: when we drive faster to make it through the yellow light instead of slowing down. Rebellion is to be opposite and we do something opposite to someone else everyday. Its a natural reaction that every person does.Whether it be on purpose, like a girl deciding to cut her hair because a certain boy like long hair, or on accident, when we choose a specific path to take home while your spouse believes the other path is more efficient. There is a rebel in all of us.
Then there is Applebee's. When ever I here someone say opposite day my mind tends to drift towards a children attempting to right their wrong by saying its opposite day and making it okay for him to so what he was doing. Applebee's has done the same to me and a group of friends quite a few times already. As a store that has special deals after 9pm, it seems that every time that we go there they are completely out of stock of only those items that are on sale right at 9 o'clock. The first time we went there we decided to leave and go to another food place. The second time we accepted their imperfect menu and order from the little that was available. Both of those times they tried to explain how they run out of items on night we come because they get their new shipments in the next morning. On the third visit, they decided to close their doors 4 hours early to update their computer system. There is always something they are doing that is opposite of their norm and they try to justify it because like children, because though they are rebelling against what should be done, they still want to be seen as correct in their ways.
This is another reason why we will never have an Opposite Day, because if we do things opposite, we would have to show that what we were going originally was the way it was supposed to be done. But no one explicitly desires to the opposite of others unless it is in spite, because deep inside everyone want to be normal.
But to be normal, is to be loved by everyone, to be seen as acceptable and exceptional to anyone who looks, to be a standard for all others. Normal seems to be the idea of perfection, and no one is perfect, though we strive for it. Our individuality is what keeps us from being normal, but it helps us to be ourselves, with our quirks, mannerisms, imperfects, but above all, it allows us to be human.
