LOCKED OUT...

Most people today would probably agree with me and say that a lockout happening in life can be good and a time to better yourself or a time that brings bad things that it would actually cause you a lot of pain and make your life negative. Being locked out of something is something everyone of us experiences. It also may bring people together or tear us apart one by one. It can help us evolve our technology and in turn become stronger, smarter, and faster compared to the people who lived before us or can be our downfall and cause us to become no more. Join me and you can be at ease with the thought that I will give it my all to show you what the word lockout is and what it brings out on us.

The word lockout is one commonly used for the interaction between employers and workers. A lockout happens whenever the employers gives a list of specific decisions in which the workers do not agree to and therefore the employer doesn't allow them to work and so the workers are well locked out of their jobs, thus the word lockout was born.

Enough with all of the stuff about the definition of the word lockout. I experienced a lockout recently but since I do not have a place to work in or an employer, which is really no surprise since I am still just in high school. The lockout I experienced was a lockout with my phone. Some people might say that it would not be that bad and I would too but then I had it disabled at our winter break and it sucked. Because of this I missed out on a lot of my phone would keep on ringing there and I cannot see the text or know who the person was. Imagine this with your eyes closed. You are home, lying on your bed and you would wonder what other people our doing at that time while you are there with your phone beside you and it keeps ringing while you cannot see who texted. I tried a lot of ways to find a way to get it open again so that I can use it again. Today, I got my phone back but then it has nothing. No messages,contacts,apps, and anything a phone normally haves.  If you read along, I assure you that you will learn a thing or two.

As I said the lockouts people experience and I included are times to grow as a person or sadly, for some people fall. Let’s take a look at our best possible friend when learning from the mistakes of our ancestors, history. History helped me find the person called Jose Rizal.  The national hero of the Philippines.  He was put in prison by the Spanish colonizers.  While in prison though, he became better and he helped the Philippines break free from the Spaniard with the help of the experiences he had from the Spaniards. The experiences like being locked out in prison and metamorphic ally speaking being locked out of helping other Filipinos directly because it was not safe to do during the time of the Spanish colonization. If you want to look for a modern example, I can help. The answer to that would in front of me. Currently, I am watching MTV and it is talking about the musician Akon. He started out small, a car thief. We all know what happens to thieves’ right? They get caught. So there he was in prison and he thought about is life a lot. Primarily thinking about the pain his family is experiencing because they don’t have any more a person to supply them with their basic needs. He used his time in there to begin a new life. He literally turned his life around. When he got out he stayed out of trouble and pursued music. He worked and worked and he eventually became the person he is today. Through music he united a lot of people thanks to his music and he used his fame to help people of his native land, Africa.  Now let’s look onto the other side. People who fall from lockouts are also the ones who rise up. When you fall you got to push yourself up and the people I just mentioned are people who fell but stood up. My point is simple  great people fall but rise up and if you ask what happens to those who fall but don’t stand up, well they either die or go on to become people of evil.

Being locked out of something essential like basic necessities needed for life will make us humans learn to evolve our technology in order to survive or do the exact opposite. At the start of man we were locked out of heat and vision in the night and so we made fire. Then during the time of Thomas Edison a lot of people didn’t have a light source and so he invented the flash light. It made the world a better place.  There has been no example in history where man died because of being locked out of something and I hope it will never happen. In the whole timeline of man people were forced to create, innovate, and  then repeat.

Our species can become stronger, smarter, and faster or fall because of the effects of being locked out from a specific commodity. The human species today has the potential to become better in every way than our ancestors because of the technology and information we have today can surely make us the best there ever was but I am not saying that we are the best there ever was because not all of us reached our full potential. Some of us may even lock ourselves out of other people and become loners ,people who become depressed and this can also lead to sickness. I say that people today have the potential to be the best but the potential does need work to become the best.

This is the end of my post. Thanks for reading!