Only a start of the week and already feels like it was a couple of long weeks and no weekend! I guess, there is no point to ramble about mundane things, they will be there whether we want them or not…
Have you noticed how one thing after another makes you tired-stressed. Not as in psycho-stressed fashion, but rather in apathetic one, when you just go on on autopilot, merge into routine and become a casual Thing-In-A-Day…if you not there, would anyone notice it?
So what's new? I’m a little grouchy today… Sometimes the more you do for people, the more they make you to do for them. Ever since our latest brilliant management decision to merge few departments in one, every day holds a surprise for us…as a support organisation we are not exactly in the best position to provide best service for our users, as our users have this annoying habit to spread over around 40 something different locations, few outside of town as well as one – few hours of driving away. Try and do something for those and in a reasonable time too. And since the Great Merge exercise, new locations keep popping out from nowhere – just yesterday you didn’t knew a place exists and today you already equipped with a new geographical knowledge! Actually, I’m under the impression that our helpline has just been advertised in universe-wide Yellow Pages. Could somebody kindly give me Klingon lessons please, I envisage aliens calling soon…today a new “surprise” hatched out of nowhere. Apparently, there is another remote location that we didn’t know we support. Until today. It is kind of "remotely " remote, I’d say – it is in …New York (?!). Well, we are on one small island only some 3456 miles from them, not big deal, I suppose. If this doesn’t make sense to you, it doesn’t do it to me either. And, of course, the funny side of it that we are totally unsynchronised - we like to sleep when they like to work and vice versa…I don’t know if we ever be able to make this work, but I hope that they will pay for air ticket for “on call” visit.
Accidentally came across a journal entry that made me sigh deeply…truly religions should be hold responsible for the hatred on this planet. Any religion in my opinion. Or, rather, every one. I’m a mere Moron, but to be honest, somehow I feel proud of that now. Better to be a Moron, then to be on the same team with some militant “spiritual” leaders. I wonder what happenned with...
"By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35)"
[*this is not a question…~sighs]
OK, I’m now in need of something uplifting, really. Or my day will end up in the spiritual garbage dump of the humanity…How about a bit of “Zen” in a form of the Labels Of New Age (by Tyrone Warner):
Today's culture is one that has a greater awareness of various kind of spirituality and practices. As a part of the Global Village, our society has developed a habit of pillaging terms and ideas from other cultures and applying them to our own home life. In the spirit of modern spirituality, what shall be presented here is an explanation of how someone can apply 'new age spirituality' labels and terms to their everyday lives.
"Finding my center" Perhaps the most applicable of all new age terms. If one spends their afternoon upon the couch, eating chips and watching movies and someone asks what they are doing, they may respond that they are simply "finding their center."
"Zen Garden" Typically a garden of sand and stone, a Zen Garden can be in fact, anything at all. Observe a messy room for example. If questioned about the state of the room, or in trying to locate an object within the disorder, one can reply that the certain object "IS where it IS." It sounds baffling and abstract, but then of course, so is Zen.
"Feng Shuei" The art of arranging objects spatially in a room to create harmony. If one has organized a desk in the library or a kitchen table in a way that some would consider disorganized, and someone asks to have it cleaned up, they should be given a look of disgust and a reply of "don't YOU believe in Feng-Shuei?!?"
"In contact with a medium" Generally stated if someone has supposedly channelled a spirit, but instead if one steps in something unpleasant, or has fallen in the mud, they can state that they have just come "in contact with a medium."
"Mantra" A word or phrase that is repeated over and over again, until it becomes habitual. To be silly, one can adopt an advertising slogan as their mantra and then point it out to everyone when that mantra appears on television or a billboard.
"Meditation" If the answer to a solution is elusive, perhaps instead of "sleeping on it" for the answer, one can state that it requires a little more meditation. Then they can close their eyes right there on the spot. To enhance confusion of whoever is proposing the problem, they must consider adding a mantra as well (see above) to the 'meditation.'
"To be one with the universe" Finally, perhaps the best way to explain a moment where someone may lose all of their patience, and 'freak out.' It could be said that the person was no longer at 'one with the universe' for that moment.
I think, I’m gonna do some Meditation now...
Have you noticed how one thing after another makes you tired-stressed. Not as in psycho-stressed fashion, but rather in apathetic one, when you just go on on autopilot, merge into routine and become a casual Thing-In-A-Day…if you not there, would anyone notice it?
So what's new? I’m a little grouchy today… Sometimes the more you do for people, the more they make you to do for them. Ever since our latest brilliant management decision to merge few departments in one, every day holds a surprise for us…as a support organisation we are not exactly in the best position to provide best service for our users, as our users have this annoying habit to spread over around 40 something different locations, few outside of town as well as one – few hours of driving away. Try and do something for those and in a reasonable time too. And since the Great Merge exercise, new locations keep popping out from nowhere – just yesterday you didn’t knew a place exists and today you already equipped with a new geographical knowledge! Actually, I’m under the impression that our helpline has just been advertised in universe-wide Yellow Pages. Could somebody kindly give me Klingon lessons please, I envisage aliens calling soon…today a new “surprise” hatched out of nowhere. Apparently, there is another remote location that we didn’t know we support. Until today. It is kind of "remotely " remote, I’d say – it is in …New York (?!). Well, we are on one small island only some 3456 miles from them, not big deal, I suppose. If this doesn’t make sense to you, it doesn’t do it to me either. And, of course, the funny side of it that we are totally unsynchronised - we like to sleep when they like to work and vice versa…I don’t know if we ever be able to make this work, but I hope that they will pay for air ticket for “on call” visit.
Accidentally came across a journal entry that made me sigh deeply…truly religions should be hold responsible for the hatred on this planet. Any religion in my opinion. Or, rather, every one. I’m a mere Moron, but to be honest, somehow I feel proud of that now. Better to be a Moron, then to be on the same team with some militant “spiritual” leaders. I wonder what happenned with...
"By this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another" (John 13:35)"
[*this is not a question…~sighs]
OK, I’m now in need of something uplifting, really. Or my day will end up in the spiritual garbage dump of the humanity…How about a bit of “Zen” in a form of the Labels Of New Age (by Tyrone Warner):
Today's culture is one that has a greater awareness of various kind of spirituality and practices. As a part of the Global Village, our society has developed a habit of pillaging terms and ideas from other cultures and applying them to our own home life. In the spirit of modern spirituality, what shall be presented here is an explanation of how someone can apply 'new age spirituality' labels and terms to their everyday lives.
"Finding my center" Perhaps the most applicable of all new age terms. If one spends their afternoon upon the couch, eating chips and watching movies and someone asks what they are doing, they may respond that they are simply "finding their center."
"Zen Garden" Typically a garden of sand and stone, a Zen Garden can be in fact, anything at all. Observe a messy room for example. If questioned about the state of the room, or in trying to locate an object within the disorder, one can reply that the certain object "IS where it IS." It sounds baffling and abstract, but then of course, so is Zen.
"Feng Shuei" The art of arranging objects spatially in a room to create harmony. If one has organized a desk in the library or a kitchen table in a way that some would consider disorganized, and someone asks to have it cleaned up, they should be given a look of disgust and a reply of "don't YOU believe in Feng-Shuei?!?"
"In contact with a medium" Generally stated if someone has supposedly channelled a spirit, but instead if one steps in something unpleasant, or has fallen in the mud, they can state that they have just come "in contact with a medium."
"Mantra" A word or phrase that is repeated over and over again, until it becomes habitual. To be silly, one can adopt an advertising slogan as their mantra and then point it out to everyone when that mantra appears on television or a billboard.
"Meditation" If the answer to a solution is elusive, perhaps instead of "sleeping on it" for the answer, one can state that it requires a little more meditation. Then they can close their eyes right there on the spot. To enhance confusion of whoever is proposing the problem, they must consider adding a mantra as well (see above) to the 'meditation.'
"To be one with the universe" Finally, perhaps the best way to explain a moment where someone may lose all of their patience, and 'freak out.' It could be said that the person was no longer at 'one with the universe' for that moment.
I think, I’m gonna do some Meditation now...