No matter how much you plan, LIFE will always win.
(Life in this post is the decisions others make on your behalf that you have no control over)
This past year has been very trying and taxing to my mental and physical strengths. Luckily I have had support from the usual and some unusual places. Normally I am a fighter so the lack of challenging and fighting has also taxed me greatly. I think I am at a point where I can honestly say I have gotten the closest to broken as I have ever been.
Now I don’t want to complain and blame others for what I have had to go through but there is a large portion that is completely out of my control. My overall feeling for this isn’t anger about the situation; it’s more of disgust or disappointment.
I am disgusted by the actions of others and disappointed in how we act as humans toward each other. I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s and as a kid I looked up to those older then me. I enjoyed fishing trips with my father, walking across town and joking with my grandfather. I was able to learn much from these two men and how we should treat others in the workplace and in business dealings.
Maybe that is my downfall, what I learned was that you should keep your word, you should work hard and do your best. Sometimes the small extra things can go a long way. I also learned that in general people were rewarded for their hard work and not for who they knew.
My disappointment is that today our workplaces are so far from that ideal that those concepts are foreign or antiquated. Customer service has almost become non-existent. Today managers orchestrate careers based on their personal feelings about a person and not their skill sets.
Will we go back, probably not, and I find that very unfortunate. Can one like me survive in that type of climate? So far it doesn’t look so good.
Really my only hope with this post is that for those of you who are in management and have the ability to make a difference in others lives, please do so with integrity, honesty and without your personal feelings. Business decisions should be based on what’s best for the company and not what’s best for you or your friends.
So to me that’s life and how Life happens.
