"Wind Suck"

“You’re an adult now and the best thing about being an adult is that it starts even before you know it starts.  There are already a dozen decisions into it.  But this is what you need to know, girl. Your lifeguard isn’t watching you anymore.  You’re on your own now and the decisions you make now are yours and yours alone from here until end.”

In this article, we are defining “wind suck” as one who blows with the prevailing breeze.  It happens when a person starts confusing majority opinion with the right opinion.

A serious problem occurs when a person becomes a wind suck.  First, it denotes that the person is becoming a part of the culture of the mainstream society as opposed to the non-mainstream society, one that shall we say is based on the social norms.  To say whether this is voluntary or involuntary, advertent or inadvertently, conscious or unconsciously happening does not even justify the situation or the person.  It is a matter of taking things at face value without daring to be wrong in order to be right.  It is not doing anything.  It is simply going into the flow.  It is following the current.  It is called the “wind suck” phenomenon.

Second, based on the above-mentioned definition, a wind suck proposes a dichotomy of the right and the wrong opinion. In this case, the derogatory implication of the “one who blows with the wind” is identified as the majority opinion.  It also goes without saying that the right opinion is anything other than the majority opinion which is supposed to be the “wrong opinion.”  Here we see an inconsistency of the idea to isolate one’s self from the socially-constructed trap of not going beyond, not thinking out of the box, not trying to change the familiar, not daring to go against something that already exist.  Here the willingness to blend is sugarcoated with the belief that to conform is to be unquestionably being accepted.  Otherwise, a person is tagged with the social stigma of becoming a deviant.

Even the word “confusing” in the above-mentioned definition is problematic because it is in its basic premise already referred to as “labeling” or “stereotyping.”

Now let us debunk all the social science rhetoric and start taking into context the reality.   Case in point is the assessment of my present situation.  In layman’s term, do I qualify in the category (Ring the bells, it calls for an alarm) of a “win suck” person in my present job?  On the second thought, supposed I am or am not, how confident am I that I will not be (this is a double oh-oh) in the prospective job where I’m transferring to?

Assuming that I made the decision and that I’ll live to regret it, will my decision then be irredeemable or irreversible? 

As I am contemplating on the countless questions, I am flooded with a dozen more to clarify.  The difference between trying and failing or failing and trying is at least I did something, even if I end up in the same place.

Everybody changes, time passes and my promise, my potential is very fickle.  It might not be just there anymore.

To sum it up, I do not know when the best part of my life will begin.  This is the surprise I have yet to unravel.