I know. It sounds egotistical. But I've always had this feeling that I was meant for something significant. Maybe it's the feeling of a person who isn't satisfied with what they've done so far. Cause I know I'm not. I'm not talking MLK or JFK type significance, or even EV significance. Just a difference. Not some office drone job. Which is what I do now.
Irony is, I don't believe in destiny. I believe in making your own fate. So this is totally hypocritical on top of egotistical.
I just feel like I not only NEED to make a difference, but I'm SUPPOSED to make a difference in some way. Anyone else feel like this??
How do you know you haven't made a difference?
Everyday we create our own fate and effect the fate of those around us.
Everyday we create our own fate and effect the fate of those around us.
You've made a difference in my life.
Good point. I think nowadays people feel they have to be famous or something in order to achieve an impact. Even if you come and go on this planet without going down in the books, if you manage to impact a few people's lives around you, you're still doing pretty good
I don't want to be famous. I just used famous examples. Part of the motivation for this is selfish, though, as I want to feel fulfilled as well as doing something meaningful.
As the wise Friend Phoebe once said: there's no such thing as an unselfish act. (Dimitris excluded)
Everyday we create our own fate and effect the fate of those around us.
You've made a difference in my life.
Good point. I think nowadays people feel they have to be famous or something in order to achieve an impact. Even if you come and go on this planet without going down in the books, if you manage to impact a few people's lives around you, you're still doing pretty good
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Gotcha. It is selfish but not in a negative way. We all want to do what we were meant for, whatever that is! I feel my past has led me to where I am now, where I choose to go after this is in my control though. I feel good about where I am.
I don't want to be famous. I just used famous examples. Part of the motivation for this is selfish, though, as I want to feel fulfilled as well as doing something meaningful.
As the wise Friend Phoebe once said: there's no such thing as an unselfish act. (Dimitris excluded)
I know. It sounds egotistical. But I've always had this feeling that I was meant for something significant. Maybe it's the feeling of a person who isn't satisfied with what they've done so far. Cause I know I'm not. I'm not talking MLK or JFK type significance, or even EV significance. Just a difference. Not some office drone job. Which is what I do now.
Irony is, I don't believe in destiny. I believe in making your own fate. So this is totally hypocritical on top of egotistical.
I just feel like I not only NEED to make a difference, but I'm SUPPOSED to make a difference in some way. Anyone else feel like this??
Paul David, I just read your messages on the child-shaking post.
You have two daughters that are being raised in a loving and non-violent home.
Do you not believe that you are already doing something of the highest significance?
I can't speak for Paul David, but I want my work to signify more meaning in particular, at least that's what I posted about earlier in the thread. I don't like the concept behind working to make a few people rich (corporate) vs. my work impacting the greater good. I do try my best to make a difference in every day situations, I would just like to do more. And it is selfish... it makes me feel better knowing I have a real impact.
See, I think I'm successful because I'm going home and despite the many, many provocations I did not, in fact, leap over the desk and strangle the temper-tantrum throwing annoying person.
More than this... I don't know really. It's hard sometimes to see that what you're doing is for the greater good _ patient safety _ but in doing it you have to ask a lot of people a lot of difficult questions and guide them to the answers. And emotionally it's quite draining for all involved.
There, that's my deep thought for the day. It's one more deep thought than you people usually wrangle out of me, so now I'm going back to Ask The Next Poster to contribute something meaningful like "what's up for the weekend?"
yes, but I can't put food on the table raising them right!
I feel the same as a poster above........I hate the overall negativity/pettiness/gossipy/backstabbing bullshit of an office job. I used to be a very social person when I started here 12 years ago. People are now scratching their heads wondering why I no longer attend work social shit, or go out for lunch with them or go out for drinks with them. But going out with work people inevitibly ends up having a conversation about work in some way, and I don't want that when I'm not in front of my work computer.
So it's two-fold. I don't like my job, and want to do something meaningful. Maybe I'd be able to put up with the bullshit if I felt I was doing something worthwhile. I should be a mailman. Walking around all day with my iPod. That sounds good to me. Maybe not meaningful, but you work alone! (but a mailgirl friend of mine says it's a very hard job!? Ok, Newman!).
Paul David, I just read your messages on the child-shaking post.
You have two daughters that are being raised in a loving and non-violent home.
Do you not believe that you are already doing something of the highest significance?
Gimli 1993
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
if we go by polls, conducted by fortune and time and other magazines, the majority of americans 70 percent go to work each day and spend a mojority of their waking hours at a job they loathe. that number is even higher among 20 year olds.
so i think its something alot of people deal with. unfortunately, it seems few people ever do anything about it. some cant, some have kids and house payments to make, but others for various other reasons go to their jobs day in and day out and cant seem to do anything about it. i fall in the latter group,
Do I feel I am destined and fated, and drawn to something more than working some dead end job, graveyard shift, at a job I hate? HELL YEAH!
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Everyday we create our own fate and effect the fate of those around us.
You've made a difference in my life.
sorry you're not feeling well handsome hatman
Dissidentman, you can make a difference in my life. Send me a keg of beer from that bar of yours. And some of those extra-hot wings, those are good.
gotta try them wings and things
As the wise Friend Phoebe once said: there's no such thing as an unselfish act.
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Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
GIVE BLOOD.
I give 5 times a year and it is very satisfying knowing I have helped save hundreds of lives over the course of the last 20 + years.
It's relatively painless, and it takes about an hour.
Who can't spare an hour?
Obviously, some people can't donate for various reasons, but if you're healthy and have no other restrictions, I don't see why you wouldn't donate.
Paul David, I just read your messages on the child-shaking post.
You have two daughters that are being raised in a loving and non-violent home.
Do you not believe that you are already doing something of the highest significance?
"what a long, strange trip it's been"
More than this... I don't know really. It's hard sometimes to see that what you're doing is for the greater good _ patient safety _ but in doing it you have to ask a lot of people a lot of difficult questions and guide them to the answers. And emotionally it's quite draining for all involved.
There, that's my deep thought for the day. It's one more deep thought than you people usually wrangle out of me, so now I'm going back to Ask The Next Poster to contribute something meaningful like "what's up for the weekend?"
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I feel the same as a poster above........I hate the overall negativity/pettiness/gossipy/backstabbing bullshit of an office job. I used to be a very social person when I started here 12 years ago. People are now scratching their heads wondering why I no longer attend work social shit, or go out for lunch with them or go out for drinks with them. But going out with work people inevitibly ends up having a conversation about work in some way, and I don't want that when I'm not in front of my work computer.
So it's two-fold. I don't like my job, and want to do something meaningful. Maybe I'd be able to put up with the bullshit if I felt I was doing something worthwhile. I should be a mailman. Walking around all day with my iPod. That sounds good to me. Maybe not meaningful, but you work alone! (but a mailgirl friend of mine says it's a very hard job!? Ok, Newman!).
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
I think I still might have a chance to achieve
being onstage singing & playing in front of an audience.
(definition of an audience
= people.. including at least one, preferably two, people that I do not know.)
so i think its something alot of people deal with. unfortunately, it seems few people ever do anything about it. some cant, some have kids and house payments to make, but others for various other reasons go to their jobs day in and day out and cant seem to do anything about it. i fall in the latter group,
Do I feel I am destined and fated, and drawn to something more than working some dead end job, graveyard shift, at a job I hate? HELL YEAH!
Fixed.
*ducks and runs*