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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 6th day of the 44th week, the 4th day of the 11th month, the 309th day of 2016 [with only 50 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- King Tut Day
- Love Your Lawyer Day
- National Candy Day
- National Chicken Lady Day
- National Medical Science Liaison Awareness and Appreciation Day
- National Skeptics Day
- National Waiting for the Barbarians Day
- Punkin Chunkin -- thru the 6th
- Use Your Common Sense Day
ON THIS DAY: in 1429, during the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War, Joan of Arc liberated Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier. In 1783 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 was performed for the first time in Linz, Austria. In 1847 Sir James Young Simpson discovered the anesthetic properties of chloroform. In 1880 the first cash register was patented by James and John Ritty of Dayton, Ohio. In 1879 Thomas Edison filed a patent for his incandescent electric lamp (Note: Joseph Swan had already patented an incandescent light in Britain the previous year). In 1890 London's first deep-level tube railway opened between King William Street and Stockwell. In 1922 British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. In 1939 air-conditioning was first offered as an option for automobiles by Packard Motor Car Company for $274 (in today's currency that would be $4,759.08). In 1960, at the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr Jane Goodall observed chimpanzees creating tools, the first-ever observation in non-human animals. In 1973 the Netherlands experienced the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis -- highways are used only by cyclists and roller skaters. In 2001 the first movie based on the best-selling "Harry Potter" books by JK Rowling premiered in London.
And it is FRIDAY – best night of the week when the entire glorious weekend stretches out before you! ((yes I know not everyone’s weekends are Saturday and Sunday)). Most of us are living from one break to another, working and waiting for that time when we can pretend that our time is our own as we blithely ignore chores and running errands and activities with the kids and family stuff
In short? We wish our lives away all during the week.
Now I know that some are fully invested in their work and are doing things that they love and are absolutely happy with the workaday world – and I have listened for years as the pundits tell us that you should follow your passions and make your play your work. Fact of the matter is that there is a lot of stuff that has to be done, and while I would never advocate staying in a place doing something you actively hate if you have an option to make a living elsewhere, I have learned to accept the reason it is work is because there is stuff that has to be done whether or not that stuff is fun or loveable. I suspect that I am in the majority with that – working for a living not living to work. Unlike those who have a vocation, my identity does not depend on my job but resides elsewhere. I sell time to my employer and try to give the organization fair value. The old social contract where organizations saw their employees as their most valuable asset and took care of them is long gone – it is a simple economic exchange now: I work you pay me. I don’t work, you don’t pay me. You don’t pay me, I don’t work. Don’t you be trying to horn in on hours I didn’t sell to you!
*stops and takes a deep breath* sorry, got a little side tracked there!
My point is that we are wishing our lives away. Every time we sigh and think “I wish it was lunch time” or “I wish this work day was over” or “I wish tomorrow would get here” or “I wish it was Friday” or“I wish I was grown up” or“I wish winter was over” or “I wish I was retired”, we are actually wishing our lives away instead of actually living. We only have a finite number of minutes alloted to us and we have no way of knowing just how many we have been given, so why wish them away? It is something that I definitely need to work on….
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