Work E-Mail 11/10/2011

Occasionally I feel it necessary to share real e-mails of mine...

"Do you know if there is anything we can do about the load time for the filters in the inventory facility? Specifically the “school name” filter. I spend half (ok that’s an exaggeration, it’s more like 1,200 seconds) of my day waiting for it to load. You know what it’s like waiting that long for something that doesn’t turn out to be Christmas, losing your V-card, or a lifetime supply of gobstoppers? It’s awful."

Rat Race

I'm currently balls deep in a real life rat race...

Rat race 

noun Informal.

any exhausting, unremitting, and usually competitive activity or routine, especially a pressured urban working life spent trying to get ahead with little time left for leisure, contemplation, etc.

 

Whatever. This is how I'm looking at it currently...

 

 

Girl, Lately So Many Things Have Been Changing

A Child's Tale Adapted for a Grown-Up (or something like that)

Everybody knows the children's story about "The Ugly Duckling" (and if you don't you should probably check it out. There's a major plot twist that this entry might spoil if you read ahead of time), but upon laying in bed last night I realized one of (I can only assume people have thought up all sorts of explanations) the hidden teachings that can come from this wonderful child's tale.

Life's not always pretty and sometimes people do crazy things and say crazy things (and not the good crazy) that do nothing but harm and detract from positivity. That's where you get the ugly duckling:

Okay that's not an ugly duckling, but seriously after google searching "ugly duckling" this little guy is what pops up and it was just too adorable to pass up posting. This is more along what I'm talking about:

It's not pretty, and face it or not, neither is being crazy. It happens though often for reasons outside of explanation. I recently had a crazy spell that was brought on by moving to a completely new place and being terrified of the fact that I didn't know anyone or even what to do with myself. Now that it has all passed it's clear just how ugly it must have looked from the perspective of my peers. Hence the ugly duckling. The teaching, or revelation if you will, comes in realizing after the fact that you learn from these occurrances and become this:

Oops, sorry. I meant this:

A beautiful soaring Swan.

The most important part to consider when transitioning from ugly duckling to swan though is this: don't allow your ugly duckling sadness to affect those around you on your way to swandom. Especially people you truly care about and enjoy the company of. There's no going back when you ruin something like that.

Serenity

Thursday

Why are Thursday mornings when I feel like saying things on here? This morning I found out that the red line only has 3 passing trains between 3 and 4 am and the only people on those trains are sleeping homeless people and well, me. Besides the adventure that got me to that point it was a pleasant ride with a valuable lesson learned. Sometimes it takes being surrounded by people but being all alone to realize how surreal life can really be.

No Worries, Be Happy

Thursday's Thoughts

Some people in this world really are actually just shitty shitty people who lack the capacity to truly care for other people. When you fall into the trap of truly caring for a person like this it magnifies the learning lesson that arrives post-facto of realizing these people exist. Lesson learned life, lesson learned. -Brian