Tag: empathy

Colleagues

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If you are constantly in a situation where you know and your colleague does not.

Where you have the answers and your colleague does not.

Where your job is better than the job of your colleague.

Where your opinion matters more than the opinion of your colleague.

Where you understand while your colleague doesn’t really get it.

Where you have all the expertise while your colleague really just is a junior.

Where you make decisions while your colleague waits for your decisions to be made.

How can you really expect to build a relationship with them?

A dear friend

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Life is a combination of different parts.

Yourself. The people you get to build ties with. Your family. The work you do. Your beliefs and principles. Your well-being. The job you do to benefit your community. The partners you choose.

And when something bad happens in one part of our life – we get fired, a relationship ends, we are stuck in our development, etc. – it is very common to magnify that until it becomes the totality and the absolute reality of our entire existence.

To put things back in perspective, we might need help. And perspective is always a dear friend.

When you’re gone

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This is true.

You are only as good as the people who will miss you when you’re gone.

Also, make the memories kind and soft. Make it so that the lack of your presence will not be a burden, but a reminder of chance and possibility. Make them miss you not for who you are but for who they were when you were around. Make it a longing, not a begging.

That’s legacy.

Picture by Gapingvoid.

Sometimes

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Sometimes it’s just too much.

Sometimes even the idea of taking the next step is painful.

Sometimes there’s not even a next step to take.

Sometimes breathing is harder than crying.

Sometimes the hole is deep and you can’t see but down.

Sometimes focus is impossible.

Sometimes that feeling in your guts, that thought in the back of your head, it’s the only feeling, the only thought.

Sometimes it’s like this.

Here’s to make it just “some” times.

Journey over destination

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Since early on, they tell us it’s going to be easy.

That most things are natural, that talent is innate, that success is overnight. That relationships are a given. That having kids is just as simple as drinking a cup of coffee. That the way you go into the world, your purpose, your principles, are going to be very clear and eventually magically manifest in front of you. Without any effort.

Instead, it’s tough.

Almost every thing that is worth something requires blood, sweat, and tears.

And that’s probably what makes it worth it.

Journey over destination.