"Get used to getting
used."
There are a lot of aspects of daily
life that we have become accustomed to that we don’t find particularly
pleasing, but because they happen so regularly, we get used to them. For example, we get used to rush hour traffic
every day of the week. We’ve gotten used
to hearing crappy techno-party-synthesizer music on the radio. Southerners have even been forced to get used
to having a mixed (that’s probably as close as we’ll ever get to black)
president. I think? Anyways, my point is that, at first, none of
these events were particularly pleasing, but as time went on and the more that
we were around them, they became acceptable.
Kanye saying that he had become used to being used was just his own way
of flipping something that is generally viewed as negative into something
positive. “Use” in this context isn’t
negative because we use and get used every day.
When you go to Mcdonalds’ (again, this is a terrible idea) you use the
cashier and other employees there to get food in your belly. The employees use you and your order to make
money. There is an order to using and
being used, so get used to the process and understand how it can be
beneficial. If someone uses you for
something and you give them a product only worthy of the bottom of a dumpster
(recycling bin for my environmentalists), then why should they come use you
again? Understand that every time that
you are using or being used that it is an opportunity to prove yourself and
provide a new avenue to pursue whatever it is that you decide makes you a
success. So when your boss has you doing
what you consider a purposeless task, think of it as a grand opportunity to
prove your worth to him. It puts you in
a position to be promoted when you do what is asked of you to the best of your
ability; therefore, you are using him for that chance just as he is using you
to get his work done. Kanye also calls
this the “Thank you and you’re welcome” effect, which I will expound upon more
in depth in the coming days. Though I believe in “getting used” and the
thinking that goes along with it, it isn’t to say that we should allow ourselves
to be taken advantage of, but to, instead, help us understand that in order to
get to where we want in life, we will be used by someone. That is it for the first round, but I’ll be
back later today to speak on the next part of the quote. "To use someone is necessary. What's
negative is to misuse, overuse or abuse somebody.”
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