Where Are You?

I've been looking for you. I want to know how you've been. Maybe a little message from do will suffice but you gave me none. Did you win or did you lose? I want to know.

I Am Not My Work

Working for a someone who isn't particularly liked by many is sometimes a burden to carry. People would often assume that you agree with everything that you're superior is doing. Even more so when you are good at the jobs assigned o to you. They would greet you mockingly on how you're superior is doing and wondering why you get along with them despite the different public opinion. Worse of all, they tend to see you as your superior which is for me a disrespectful thing to do.

I am just an employee who does what is required of me that is not illegal or immoral. I do what is assigned and do it well. It is not my problem if people see my supervisor at a different light. For me to be an asset to my superior and my efficiency in doing my job doesn't coincide with my personal opinions on him as a person. Personal opinions that need not be brought out in public because they are insignificant in the performance of my job.

Reacting to this sort of disparaging remarks is not acceptable in public because they could turn it against you even if you know that what they say is a mockery of what you are. Rants like this is not common in the workplace where people often have to put masks to hide their true opinions for fear of negative repercussions.

It is in the place like this that individuality is lost because you have to bend down to the will of the people who thought that they "fed you". That think that you always have to agree to them.

Please note that "I am not defined by the person I work for" because "I will not be defined by the limitations set upon me".

I choose to be me.

Planning A Vacation Early

I have recently booked a plane flight for a vacation that will happen if about four months. Planning early is good especially when money is not easily available. Nowadays, you can book early for flights to receive larger discounts.

I already booked for one plane ride and I still need to book for another flight because its some sort of exotic destination. Do direct flights from the nearest airport here to that place. I'm glad that my friend is helping with with all the reservations. All I have to do is pay and show up on the flight date.

Time to plan for another trip. I want to go Camarines Sur and experience their world-class watersport complex. I want to try wakeboarding and I would really want to jump of that water ramp and fly in the air.

I hope I can do it this year.

Enjoying the Music of Adrew Lloyd Webber and the Humorous Songs of Monty Python

Tonight, I have been listening to the music of Andrew Lloyd Webber. He's the one behind the great musicals The Phantom of the Opera, Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, among others. We have had a copy of the album Andrew Lloyd Webber containg 60 of his classic works with some of the famous singers Madonna, Elvis Presley, Barbra Streisand.

In my playlist now are the songs:

1. Any Dream Will Do
2. Oh What a Circus
3. All I Ask of You
4. Whistle Down the Wind
5. I'd Be Suprisingly Good For You
6. Evermore Without You
7. No Matter What
8. All The Love I Have
9. Learn to be Lonely
10. Any Dream Will Do
11. Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again
12. Close Every Door

Earlier this evening, I was listening to the humurous songs of the Monty Python from their classic comedies The Holy Grail, Life of Brian and the Meaning of Life.

Try to listen to these wonderful songs:

1. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life
2. Lumberjack Song
3. Bruce's Philosophers Song
4. Knights of the Round Table
5. Eric The Half a Bee
   

The Use of Skills Leads to Growth

Most of us spend many hours each week watching celebrated athletes playing in enormous stadiums. Instead of making music, we listen to platinum records cut by millionaire musicians. Instead of making art, we go to admire paintings that brought in the highest bids at the latest auction. We do not run risks acting on our beliefs, but occupy hours each day watching actors who pretend to have adventures, engaged in mock-meaningful action.

This vicarious participation is able to mask, at least temporarily, the underlying emptiness of wasted time. But it is a very pale substitute for attention invested in real challenges. The flow experience that results from the use of skills leads to growth; passive entertainment leads nowhere. Collectively we are wasting each year the equivalent of millions of years of human consciousness. The energy that could be used to focus on complex goals, to provide enjoyable growth, is squandered on patterns of stimulation that only mimic reality.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi