I just finished writing a post about my day at work yesterday but I decided not to post it especially after reading yet another article about how someone got fired from their job because of a personal blog. Seriously, I don't need any more drama in my life.
Yesterday - 12 hours ago - I was finally allowed to roll off my current project. The circumstances aren't what I'd hope they would be and it wasn't the way I wanted it to end, but as I've been reminded by everyone I've recounted the story to "you can't always get what you want." I honestly believe that this is going to be the tag line of my year.
But, that was 12 hours ago and I've gone from amazement to disbelief to outrage to acceptance and joy and somewhere in that 12 hour time frame I managed to get 7 hours of sleep. And like everything else in my life, when I look back I realize that I've learned some very valuable lessons that I can pass on to my boys like one should have the courage of their convictions and that sometimes people will disappoint you, but it shouldn't keep you from giving others the benefit of the doubt.
The biggest lesson from this is one that my friend, D, said to me after I recounted the entire story to her and it is that you should learn to read people and be able to communicate with the different personality types. Actually it was more along the lines of:
"The world is like a sandbox and there are people who are in that sandbox who are assholes and will always be assholes. And there are people who are in that sandbox who are supposed to control the assholes, but choose not to because they fear the assholes. At the end of the day, you want to be able to look at yourself in the mirror and say that I did the best that I could dealing with the assholes and I myself did not turn into an asshole."
Interesting.
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