Day One Hundred Seventeen:
My co-workers are pissing me off almost to the breaking point, but there's a huge reason I haven't spoken up about the matter... it's my own damn problem.
Once, in youth group [fancy me attending church? ...ah, that was another age], we watched Jacob Have I Loved with the advance warning that there would be a character we would be inclined to hate, but there is absolutely no justifiable reason to hate that character.
It's true. Everyone tends to identify with Louise, simply because she is the protagonist, so when her sister Caroline gets the better treatment just because she has an obvious talent and will utilize it, Louise is angry--she is the one most desperately trying to get off the island, but Caroline is the one being aided.
Yet... what would Louise do on the mainland?
[I may be forgetting the actual plot at this point, but the moral still holds--it's not necessarily another's fault that s/he does things contrary to your idea of perfection, particularly when you yourself don't know what that is.]
So, I have a headache because I worked too slowly and/or guzzled too much soda, making myself sick after lunch break, and though I would really have liked to get in some GV before bedtime, I'm simply going to have to crash now.
If my co-workers are doing things wrong, I should say something. Otherwise, I should shut up and deal.
Once, in youth group [fancy me attending church? ...ah, that was another age], we watched Jacob Have I Loved with the advance warning that there would be a character we would be inclined to hate, but there is absolutely no justifiable reason to hate that character.
It's true. Everyone tends to identify with Louise, simply because she is the protagonist, so when her sister Caroline gets the better treatment just because she has an obvious talent and will utilize it, Louise is angry--she is the one most desperately trying to get off the island, but Caroline is the one being aided.
Yet... what would Louise do on the mainland?
[I may be forgetting the actual plot at this point, but the moral still holds--it's not necessarily another's fault that s/he does things contrary to your idea of perfection, particularly when you yourself don't know what that is.]
So, I have a headache because I worked too slowly and/or guzzled too much soda, making myself sick after lunch break, and though I would really have liked to get in some GV before bedtime, I'm simply going to have to crash now.
If my co-workers are doing things wrong, I should say something. Otherwise, I should shut up and deal.