Keep Details in Perspective

Details. I often find myself in the midst of immense suffering as a result of disregarding small facts along the way of my pressing journey to the big goal called The End.  Nevertheless, I still see details as an aggravation in my effort to shorten my to-do list. In my opinion, no one is a “details person”, as details should be present as small print which no one reads, and no one reads the small print. Instead, the very definition of the word “detail” varies with each individual. Each person defines what a detail is, not how much emphasis they will place on it. If someone gives so much attention to a detail it loses its detail value, and it becomes a sub point or a major point. In essence, one man’s details are another man’s passion.

There is no way to universally measure the real worth of a detail, because a detail is dependent on a person’s subjective perspective. It depends on a person’s priorities and their estimate of how events will unfold and what consequences they will bring. If they fail to calculate their formula correctly, their definition of details could be faulty.

Details = events or actions that are [hypothesized by a person] to bring < significant direct outcomes to a particular cause

It is not the details that are the problem; it is the person’s ability to determine the precise outcomes of where they must use their resources. There is an objective definition for each person’s details, and they must not be confused as main points, or a main point could be lost which could be detrimental to the person’s goal.

For example, when I was in high school I worked the cash register in retail, I had a long list of procedures to run through besides the obvious, getting people’s money and giving them their clothes. The first step was to ask the customer two questions: if they had found what they had been looking for and who had helped them. Both of which I found ineffective but I couldn’t proceed to the computer until I had given it an answer so I found it to everyone’s best interest to submit to asking to these useless questions. I was then supposed to ask them if they wanted to sign up for a credit card which, although pointless, was not time consuming like the others because the customer usually turned it down point blank. Then I was to ask them if they would like to sign up as the store’s newest Chosen Customer. Now, there is no coincidence these questions are asked in this particular order, so I ask myself, if the marketers are analyzing and examining effective ways of communicating and expanding their public that they even prefer the questions to be asked in a particular order, why can they not analyze this retarded system of taking down thousands, and yes I mean thousands, of apathetic customers’ names in order to call, email, fax and mail each individual a small flyer about the monthly sale? I found it annoying to be the person in charge of contacting the thousands of women across the state that chose to be the newest Chosen Customer at that moment, whether it was out of the elated joy of new clothes, or a pity agreement so they did not feel they had just given me two negative replies in a row.