Gardenlover said:
Here today gone tomorrow. If a person is truly remarkable they may be remembered by their grandchildren once in a while. After that most of us are forgotten. If that is all there is what is the point - we might as well be a plant.
My hope comes in believing there is more to come. That's my hope, too, just not on planet Earth again. I've seen more than enough of this filthy, stinking, murderous planet. As for my opinion of life amounting to much while we are here... not much, at least not much for the normal, regular, everyday average joe.
I see most folk spend a majority of their lives slaving away at some nowhere, nothing job, with little time remaining at the end to enjoy what's left, and for some (not all), the reward is a home, a vehicle, and if you're lucky, a little spending money. Whoop-de-do.
Hardly worth 35, 40, or 45 years of the best years of ones life dedicated to some self-serving, thankless employer.
IMO there's something really wrong with that picture. JMTC (just my two cents).
I needed somewhere to explain a gripe I've got about a recent work experience, so here goes.
First I think I've been pushed "above and beyond the call of duty", (okay just for one day, by an employer who has in general been absolutely great with me, but nonetheless, at 67, sent to a job 200 miles away at very short notice, after already been up many hours, then being told to keep going for a twelve hour shift, after very broken sleep,..., I'm slightly exaggerating although I have little doubt my blood pressure rose through the roof).
One more gripe, a young person from Scotland I'd never met before and I'm sure has a good and generous heart, managed to cut me down when I asked her where in Scotland she came from, and apparently has such a negative view of the whole of her country of birth no one is to speak of it at all, then later I asked her whether she had been to college or university I was cut down again, even though she'd mentioned some educational background, and the last straw so far as this madam went/goes on first impressions, or a first day anyway, when I asked her what was left to do half an hour before we were due to finish a job she's been doing for four months she pretended she did not know.
Defensiveness on this scale would normally raise much wider questions in my mind, even though this young woman did work exceptionally hard, to the extent I'd guess she's trying to bury herself in her work, (oh, then sucking up to a slightly slimy manger appears to be order of the day)? The rest of the week I'm committed to trying to support this small team, due to another member of staff being on bereavement leave, and it is certainly not looking so rosy in my view as it should be, and I admit I threw a bit of a fit at the end of the day and downed tools!
There we are, gripe over, and as to whether we should live in hope, even if we accept we're not going to be missed when we're gone, I agree whole heartedly with one or two positive posts above!
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