Lunatic Platitudes

I’ve been pretty down lately. To be honest I sort of expected it to turn out bad and have been pleasantly surprised to find positivity instead. Benjamin Franklin said that if you expect the worst then you won’t be disappointed. Or maybe it was, ouch! That lightning hurts! One of those things. They both apply here I think.

Basically I’ve been with my current company since 1913 or so it seems. Now that a big monolithic company has bought us, everyone has lost their minds. Would it surprise any of you to know that while I have grown technically in my current job, I have been physically and mentally worn thin by the politics and swarms of low self esteems in our building? Ok. I haven’t exactly been worn thin. That’s not a word anyone would use while describing me.

The point I am trying to make here is that I am a survivor. It’s not that I am special or somehow destined to do great things and therefore deserving of being spared the loss of my job. I just survived. That’s it. I feel pretty good about it. It doesn’t make me better than anyone else, if anything it just shows that I have remaining oportunity where I had been nurturing a growing dispair. Either that or it proves that even expendable bomb sniffing dogs survive once in a while.

I think mostly the people who read my blog are friends. If you and I don’t talk personally on occaision you are the rare exception. So I feel comfortable closing by just saying that I am taking a breather, being thankful for what I have in my life and taking in the air as I need it.

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