Daily Mood Quotes - Movember 7, 2011

 

Daily Mood Quote

187 – November 7, 2011

Human nature is above all things lazy.

~Harriet Beecher Stowe

Today, I am on a tirade. Yes, a tirade, read, don't read you choose, there's a lot to say (you're being forewarned). There is nothing in this world that frustrates me more than lazy people and I think this morning errands and communications via e-mails where “the straw that broke the camel's back.”

From the clerk who wouldn't check for milk in the back room of the grocery store, to lazy teachers (yes, that issue is still on-going), to lazy drivers who obviously never learned where the turn signal is on the steering column of the car. UUUGGGHHHH, it's Monday. An interestingly enough, my pharmacist was kind enough to inform me that we spend 1/7^th of our life on Mondays; about 14.29% for those of you who don't want to do the math. To quote my teenager, “Well Duh!” It makes me want to stay in bed and try to sleep through Mondays, If only I could, especially if Mondays continue to be as disagreeable as this one. I guess a lot of folks think the same, judging by how they behave on Monday morning. I guess the price of a good Sunday is a rough starting Monday. I hope that's not the case.

My husband and I have arrived at a point where we agree; we don't get it. How can people, especially people who have jobs, be so lazy in doing their jobs and in their personal behavior? I'm pretty sure the nearly 14 million unemployed would love to have those jobs and probably even do them well, because they understand what life is like for the unemployed. I am amazed how much people with jobs take for granted. It's not like they're better educated or harder working, just lucky and I don't think they quite “get” that. Especially a few teachers I know of who bragged about their years as a teacher, when clearly the behavior towards students, and student's parents screams “I'm only here to collect a paycheck and do the bare minimum, because my union protects me.” Do you know how many people I have known used the protection of the union to save their jobs while they screw-off, or even flat out steal from their employers? It's amazing what people get away with by “hiding behind” their union contract to keep their jobs. Shameful....

On the other side of the coin, I will be interested to see how many companies (it happens every year, like clockwork), lay-off people over the next six weeks. The holidays are coming you know, and it seems to spur companies to let people go, so the top executives can get a bonus, for doing... well nothing good, that's for sure. What a sorry looking mess we have made of our once thriving economy.

In the movie The Big Lebowski, Maude Lebowski (played by Julianne Moore) asked The Dude (played by Jeff Bridges) “What do you do for recreation?” I suppose there was still disposable income for “common man” recreation in 1998. Today, we have to decide between electricity and food, then occupy Wall Street, because the ones that need the jobs, those that are willing to put in an honest days work, can't find the jobs, or are denied the jobs because of age, (yes, discrimination), education (yes, because they have one), or because they are a transplant (yes, they moved to your town and you want them out). And all the while, so many who still have a job, seem to receive paychecks for just kind of standing around and doing nothing. It's important to note that I'm not talking about all the people, (I'm sure there are still plenty of decent, hard working, honest folks out there), just the ones I dealt with today and maybe someone you dealt with or are dealing with today. Way to go, you make us proud to share our country with you... “NOT!”

It is a little frustrating to have so much to offer, thanks to a good education and experience and watch those who really shouldn't have a job, screw off, lie, cheat, steal, and so much more; then turn and have the attitude that nothing can happen to them, or their job, because they are related to someone somewhere or a favor is being honored (I call this “the political system”), or the union protects them. Like Tom Selleck (Peter) said in Three Men and a Baby, “what a crock!!!” No wonder we have problems.

How will you overcome laziness today?

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Daily Mood Quote - October 13, 2011

 

Daily Mood Quotes

Day 163 – October 13, 2011

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.

~Cato

An angry woman can do the same. I know a woman who is so disappointed with her life, the only way she can communicate with people is through yelling and never allowing them to speak. Even on a phone call to someone else, she is in the background yelling and being a distraction to the two people talking on the phone. How does someone get so angry? Stay so angry?

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

~Mohandas Gandhi

It has always amazed me how a perpetually angry person jumps to conclusions and begins yelling and screaming before all of the information that is needed to make a good decision, or have a civil conversation is completely expressed. I seems to me, these folks don't want to hear anyone else's position or opinion on a subject, because they just might hear and have to face the truth. Or, at least something that may cause them to look at the situation with another eye.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

~Albert Einstein

I believe it is alright to get angry. It can be a natural reaction in some situations. However, to stay angry and let it fester and grow then acting out on that anger, or holding a grudge is a different thing. I have learned through conversations with many people of experience and wisdom, that holding on to anger is unhealthy. We are not designed to hate, or to carry anger for a lifetime. Image how dark the days must be, when our lives are filled with anger and every conversation, every action and every interaction is filled with anger...soooo sad. There is another quote by Alfred A. Montapert, “Every time you get angry, you poison your own system.” I've seen it, it is poisonous. To hold onto anger is to drink its venom daily. The system slowly rots away, from the inside out. Why do people do that to themselves?

Anybody can become angry – that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way – that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.

~Aristotle

But, it is worth it. The anger response is a natural thing and built into all of us by millions of years of fight or flight requirements, but control of that anger and the ability to put it away and move on, is what makes us truly human; truly special among the species of the earth. However, it is the choices we make when confronted by anger, that can build us up or tear our lives asunder. In the movie The Fisher King, with Jeff Bridges and Adam Bryant, Parry (played by Robin Williams) said, “It begins with the king as a boy, having to spend the night alone in the forest to prove his courage so he can become king. Now while he is spending the night alone he's visited by a sacred vision. Out of the fire appears the holy grail, symbol of God's divine grace. And a voice said to the boy, "You shall be keeper of the grail so that it may heal the hearts of men." But the boy was blinded by greater visions of a life filled with power and glory and beauty. And in this state of radical amazement he felt for a brief moment not like a boy, but invincible, like God, so he reached into the fire to take the grail, and the grail vanished, leaving him with his hand in the fire to be terribly wounded. Now as this boy grew older, his wound grew deeper. Until one day, life for him lost its reason. He had no faith in any man, not even himself. He couldn't love or feel loved. He was sick with experience. He began to die. One day a fool wandered into the castle and found the king alone. And being a fool, he was simple minded, he didn't see a king. He only saw a man alone and in pain. And he asked the king, "What ails you friend?" The king replied, "I'm thirsty. I need some water to cool my throat". So the fool took a cup from beside his bed, filled it with water and handed it to the king. As the king began to drink, he realized his wound was healed. He looked in his hands and there was the holy grail, that which he sought all of his life. And he turned to the fool and said with amazement, "How can you find that which my brightest and bravest could not?" And the fool replied, "I don't know. I only knew that you were thirsty."

When I read this, it made me think, if people think about how they behave towards others?

How will you find the “correct understanding” today?

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