The one really good thing about my job is the fact that it's like a cold bucket of reality being splashed in my face.
When I get all whiny and bitchy about things not going my way all I have to do is sit back and take a look at some of the stories we covered out this week.
The rugby player who is battling cancer and thought he had it kicked but is now clinging to life and in a coma, or the high school student who was out drinking with his buddies to celebrate an upcoming graduation but died in a freak accident, or the guy who was driving home on a grid road -- lost control of his vehicle and rolled into a slough and died, and of course the guy who went missing and wound up dead in his truck in a parking lot.
All of that misery. All of those lives cut short and all of those struggles. It really helps to bring things into perspective and makes me remember that I do have things pretty good and sometimes pretty easy.
So maybe, I should just shut up and enjoy it.
I think I will.
1 comment:
I find myself thinking and feeling this way a lot . . . the whole "I am so incredibly blessed, how do I have any right to complain" thing. I some ways I think being whiny and bitchy about our own situations is okay - (1) to allow us to feel fortunate when others have it worse and (2) because it sometimes propels us to make the changes we have been resisting to make ourselves happier.
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