It’s the time of the year everyone begins the rush to get home to be with family. I’ve often heard years prior people speak of how wonderful it is to get home. It’s then followed by more subtle fears. Fears of all the demands family places on an individual. For example, you might be the type who’s never really decided on a career. You wanted to explore what was out there. At the beginning your…
Awhile back I began to notice this fascination in certain people with faraway exotic places. They rave, gush and drool whenever someone else mentions a place that they haven’t visited. I understand that it’s a temporary extraction from the everyday familiarities that can dull one’s senses. It’s something I think is basic and necessary to the core of existence. Then the conversation begins to steer towards something I hadn’t expected. I begin to get the…
“You should look them up they are a really good band.” That was a statement I recently came across [incorrect punctuation and all]. It pisses me off. I hate when people state essentially an opinion but put forth in a seemingly factual manner. I know of course that the person making the statement really and truly believed what they stated. At the time. But that does that excuse this person from thinking back on that…
I am frequenter of the College Humor website. I like watching all the videos they have. Some of them have the potentials to be virals. I always like to know what’s happening in the world in my own distorted way. One day I happened to notice that they listed a “Coed of the Week.” Actually that’s not the name. It’s actually “Cute College Girl of the Day” to which I take exception. “Coed of the…
I had and still have to a lesser extent a trait that generally doesn’t pay dividends in the working world – a need to please everyone. It was quite a burden. I’d go home feeling horrible because one of my co-workers was unhappy with a professional decision I’d made. Then I gained a little insight from my boss [first job] at the time. He told a parable which I still consult in all of my…