I woke up this morning and puttered around until I came upon my collection of work day-planners on the lowest tier of my book shelf which numbers 8 in total.  The company I work for has given out day-planner/calender for as long as I’ve been working for them.  The scary part is that it’s fast approaching 10 years since I started working there.
Early on I used the day-planner at work in an unconventional way.  I logged what I’ve accomplished or planned for the following day for the first 2 – 3 years.  It’s amazing to read back what I did one day back in say 2002 or 2003.  As I was reading through it all I am amazed at how much stuff got done over the years at work.  Amazed because I never felt we had enough time at work to do all the things that management planned. It always felt like a string of problems one followed by another. Sometimes they don’t just follow each other but rather stack on top of each other at the same time.  I guess the day-to-day moments, especially the intense moments, tends to focus a person only on the “trees” in the immediate proximity and forgetting that a “forest” surrounds him.
Among my many fears, is the the fear that my life has not been useful and productive for the benefit of myself and society. It’s heartening to know that a few things were accomplished as I read these “logs” from work.
I don’t write much in my work log nowadays. Â Maybe I’ll start again.