LIFE

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.

Weapon of Mass Destruction

So I haven’t updated my blog for a while, and for the few of you who read this, My Apologies.

I haven’t been on for various reasons and actually one of which is my topic today. The Weapon of Mass destruction I am referring to is none other then facebook.

While there is a valid point to be made as to the value of facebook and its social properties, I find that more and more there are many who just sit on there day after day to maintain certain applications. For example you have My Zoo, My farm, Farmville, Mafia Wars, Pirates and even a restaurant you can manage. Now I have fallen into some if not all of the traps listed to eat up my time. Recently, I had a thought and was slightly saddened. I see many of my friends make it a point to logon daily to ensure that their farm has been harvested, their money deposited in Mafia or Pirates at a minimum. While this is good it made me think of how many have done and do that in their real world lives.

How many of us make sure that certain things are taken care of daily? How many of us deposit our money before it’s lost to over spending? How many of us make sure that the fruits of our labors are harvested? How much time do we spend making sure our families and loved ones are taken care of and our lives free from clutter?

While some would say they do that daily, my question to them is really? Do we make it a priority to listen to others, to tend to their needs? I think if society took care of themselves, like we take care of our Farms, our Mafia and our Pirates on facebook daily the world would be a better place for all of us.

Unfortunately people don’t pay as much attention on living in this world as they do in their internet based applications. If we all focused on what we need to do like we focus on the applications we could accomplish even more in our lives.

I am not trying to get on a soapbox and I do waste a good amount of time on facebook and its apps. I hope to change that and only go on when I am alone and have absolutely NOTHING to do. Who knows?, maybe I’ll be the only one who tries this but hopefully I will be happier for it and possibly these who I am around will be happier for it as well.

(The Weapon of Mass Destruction is meant to imply that facebook is destroying our time and in person interaction with one another)