May 09, 2007 01:07
I work at a company called Biscuit Company in Ramseur, NC. It's an odd little restaurant in that it specializes simply in various types of breakfast biscuits, and closes promptly at 2pm (which must make it a dream for managers).
Prior to working at this company I worked at a couple of rather stressful jobs requiring nothing but physical strength.
Now, it was a hypothesis of mine that mental ability declines along with age but I'm excited to find that this hypothesis meets with a thousand counterexamples nearly every day. I think the biggest change so far is letting myself become a person who has put aside past and future to simply soak in the moment. I never thought I could handle the things that I do. I do not have a photographic memory, though I could fool most people into thinking I do simply because making a point of knowing where everything is at yields a greater chance that it will be recorded.
In my own mind I am walking through the evening at work where no less than 20 utensils/location pairs were introduced. I remember all of them simply because it registered.
The greatest day of my life was when I stopped thinking. You smart people have nothing to fear. Let go and let your brain be the well oiled machine that it can be.