First a quick whinge - My biggest pet-hate is bad customer service so when given the opportunity to improve things at work I will put forward my suggestions. Briefly, in March I put forward a few suggestions to pre-empt some problems we might face and was advised not to worry and my advice was ignored. Now we're dealing with cr@p as a result of it and its costing lots of money to fix. Grr. Its hard to bite my lip sometimes....
So after having that whinge, I'm going to move onto something that isn't quite what you might expect (especially after my previous whinge). This past week has been such a huge event for a lot of people in the world. Thousands of people have died or lost family/friends in China's earthquake and also in the Cyclone in Burma. When we hear about these events on TV in-between episodes of Eastenders and Coronation Street, it is easy just to glance at it and not pay attention - reality and fiction tend to merge on tv. The combined deaths in these 2 events alone were more than 20x that of 9/11. It wasn't terrorism and it wasn't war. It was nature.
I'm not about to ask you to donate money or preach to any of you, I just wanted to put some perspective on some of the drama's that infect our lives compared to what others are going through and remember that a natural disaster can happen ANYWHERE. No-one knows their sell-by-date. So don't waste time on hating/arguing. Sometimes its healthy to have a quick whinge but don't dwell on it. Work on good relationships with good friends and cut out all the dead wood until you're left with nothing but good. Life is short - improve its value x
2008-05-20 @ 14:17