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Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Contradictions

While I am conflicted daily about the fact that my job really does nothing to benefit society, I have never been less stressed about my job or more content about my life in general.

I can't wait to curl up in bed and go to sleep right now, but I also know it's so much more fun to stay awake.

I've always been told I have a young-looking face, but the wrinkles are starting to show and last night I found gray hair #4. And I actually am starting to care about this.

I love getting to know people, yet avoid eye contact when in public, especially in elevators, on trains and buses, and on the street.

Question of the day: Tell me a contradiction about you.

Big Event of the Day (tomorrow): Chillin' with Laura's friend Daniel
Percent Chance: 93.12% (only if he cancels, 'cause I refuse to be a flake!)

posted by Becky at 1:30 AM

4 Comments:

  • Your job does benefit society. Can you imagine if our texbooks were full of mistakes? We'd have a bunch of dumb kids. Kids that would grow up to become engineers that made defective bridges or something.

    My job does come pretty close to having 0% benifit to society, which is why I do some volunteer work to help make up for that fact.

    Life is full of contradictions:

    1. I hate how sports figures are so grossly overpaid, but I help support their paychecks by going to games and purchasing $6 beers and $5 hot dogs.

    2. On the bus, I always hope that no one sits next to me so I have extra room, but then when someone walks past me I'm like, "hey, what's wrong with me? Why are they passing me to sit next someone else?"

    3. I love commenting on your blog (I read 3 blogs most days, but yours is the only one I have ever commented on). But I feel kind of like a loser commenting so much and wish that I didn't. Hey, I've got a boring job!

    Hey Becky, you've been doing great in the comment category. 10 comments for your last entry!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8/23/2006 11:36:00 AM  

  • I pride myself on being intelligent and capable at work, but sometimes am wracked with such insecurity that I want to curl up into a ball and disappear. Or maybe just quit my job and work at McDonalds.

    I also consider myself an active athletic person, but on most Saturdays I sit on the couch and watch stupid movies on TV.

    For some reason people always think I'm taller than I am. This happens all the time. I tell them I'm 5'4" and they say "really? I thought you were more like 5'7"!" I don't think that's really a contradiction, but it's odd. Maybe it's my posture...

    Becky, you are hanging out with Peterman???!!! Yay! Tell me about all the fun things you do. And make sure you tell him that:

    1. his middle name is Dick
    2. he has a big lower lip.

    And say hi for me.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 8/23/2006 04:33:00 PM  

  • My contradiction: People often assume I'm very extroverted because I can be outwardly social and friendly, but the opposite is true. I tend to be a loner, albeit a guy who gets along with most people, but who has never really belonged to a particular group. My mom tells me I take after my grandfather.

    By Blogger gophilipgo, at 8/24/2006 01:39:00 PM  

  • There was a period of time where the only song I listened to before work was "Welcome to the Machine". It felt fitting. I'm upset my job does nothing to benefit the world, and the sad part is, most people's dont. It's hard to think of everyone on this earth at one time with dreams of really communicating a message; of really breaking barriers, real barriers--not climing up some ladder that doesn't exist.

    Modern day life is a series of levels of power, and self validation through power over others is the most animalistic, base kind. Much like fear, a byproduct of alienation, power too roots itself to isolation. The very way power works is by separation from another, and this is why people who are "powerful" are never happy and always crave more.

    I don't want to climb anything, or get richer or bigger or do anything that separates myself from other people. The biggest contradiction, is, in fact that: that all human beings are different beings of the same. Every person you see is you, and you are every person you see. The biggest contradiction is that we're both living and dying. The biggest error is that we think living and dying are two different things.

    Don't worry about the job, you'll do great things in life.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 9/05/2006 09:55:00 PM  

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