Digging Deep
A guy like me who types 100+ words per minutes without a second thought should not be so easily reduced to hovering fingers by the task of my journal. Yet, here we are; as open and honest as I like to be with everybody, I somehow manage to struggle putting muddled thought clouds into swirling black and white
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I think you probably hit the nail on the head with the whole 'probation period' thing. The one thing I hate about being an up-and-coming college alumnus is the Ageism that occurs so frequently these days... I mean seriously, some of these companies I have worked for have treated me like "some kid who likes computer," not considering that I probably have more hands on experience than their best MCSE, but that's besides the point... :)
I'm glad you liked the quote, and I'm even more glad that you decided to share a little of your own perspective on the matter. That was, of course, the idea after all. The reason I agree with the quote is because of causality, or cause-and-effect. It goes without saying that even a person with good common sense may never fully appreciate the value of a mistake until they've made it. For example, I've always known that you don't touch a hot stove, but because I knew this, I took the danger for granted all my life. Last month, while preparing some food for my friends at my Fourth of July cookout, I was moving a tray over the hot stove and accidentally ran my knuckle across the smoldering surface.
Suffices to say that I have a newfound respect for the stove, even though I clearly should have been more careful. I agree that it's wise to use good common sense rather than simply being headstrong, but retrospectively, I never find myself regretting the mistakes I've made. I simply could not have come to the same appreciation for my error without having suffered the consequences foremost. Intelligence and wisdom are often treated as being synonymous, but even a smart cookie *wink* can benefit from a little Pavlovian education.
Now that I'm a little further in the book, here's another quote that piqued my interest:
"'We have to deal in a currency that is meaningful to us,' she said, 'or all the success in the world won't feel good, it won't bring happiness. If someone promised they'd pay you a million scrunchies to walk across the street, would you cross the street? If they promised you a hundred million scrunchies, so what?'... What's a scrunchy worth? I wondered.'"
- Richard Bach (A Bridge Across Forever, 1984)
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-Jay
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