"Shotgun": The most overused word on the planet

I hear the word shotgun every single day. When i go to school, when i go to my friends house, ANYWHERE i go i hear the word, and i hate it. It summarizes the type of people many of us have become on this planet (including me). We shotgun things to make it easier on ourselves, sort of guaranteeing ourselves of something in most cases. We do this to avoid conflict and get what we want or like. The word shotgun is a direct result of how our society functions today. For instance, i will focus on technology; Isn't the reason for creating new technologies and gadgets to make our lives easier?

A couple months ago i was introduced to the future of remote controls. I was shown a remote that can turn on every god damn thing in your house. Could you imagine if you had to turn on the DVD player AND the TV! how ridiculous would that be! Or how about this? Remember when humans used to make fires with sticks and stones and they burned WOOD? We'll now all we have to do is flip a switch and we get the instant satisfaction of a nice warm cozy fire burning through tanks of gasoline. Oh wait, the new fire places don't have switches, that's too difficult, they come with 55 different remotes to scatter all over the house so that you never have to move an inch to enjoy you freshly burnt gas.

The fact is, it doesn't seem as though we were supposed to have all these gadgets and technologies that make our lives so easy, it just doesn't feel right. And i know that as long as we advance our technologies we will create things that will make our lives easier. By 2015, you wont ever have to get out of your chair at the office, they will all be hydrogen powered (Could Happen). So when i hear the word shotgun, i refer to all the laziness that we are. I avoid the word, although it does slip out sometimes, it's important that i consciously don't say it.

Because i despise the word, I am going to make a promise to myself, as a New Years resolution to not say the word shotgun for the entire year of 2009. If i say it then i am just breaking my own promise which sucks. BUT i will still use my universalized remote to turn on anything i want in my house, just because I've already fallen into the trap of laziness that is society and technology.