Keely O'Keefe
Bio
Business school drop out.
Stories (4/0)
Red Skinned Grapes
I know I’m supposed to be grateful just to have a job during these unprecedented times. I’m not though. Waitressing was never exactly a passion project for me. I began working in restaurants back when I was a bright-eyed nineteen year old, before I realized the term “passion” was a trap manufactured by big money to manipulate lost little dummies like me into working away our most optimistic years for them, all the while convincing ourselves this was our lives’ purpose, back when I believed that artists like me could hone their craft and still make money, that art was really everywhere—in logos, business cards, corporate Christmas party invitations, branded PowerPoint templates—back when I thought I had taken the sensible approach by getting my Bachelor of “Arts” in Graphic Design. Around the same time, by some miracle of chance and family-friend connections, I had landed the coveted position of Junior Graphic Designer at a for-profit hospital. Our director told my cohort of creative new cogs early on that in our new roles, we were encouraged to bring our fresh ideas, our untainted creativity, our unjaded perspectives to work every day and to share with the world the visions that only the likes of us could conjure. Within certain parameters as defined by the corporate style guide, of course.
By Keely O'Keefe3 years ago in Proof
At what point does meditating turn into "listening to music" or "napping"?
We're all supposed to meditate these days. The nebulous "they," an amalgamation of our doctors, therapists, HR and management consultants, yoga teachers, business leaders, and other trusted and idolized gurus suspected to be holders of some truth that we could all access if we just behaved a bit more like them, tell us: You must meditate. Meditation is the key to physical and mental health. Meditation is the common factor among successful people. Meditation is both the question and the answer.
By Keely O'Keefe3 years ago in Humans