phreaks wrote:
Ever have one of these days? Any practices to help me shake this bad mood?
My head is pounding, I can barely stay awake, and I really am not very friendly today. Even the coffee tastes bad...
I remember waking up one day last year after a not very successful day and looking forward to another probably not successful day and I was in a stinking mood ... Then on the train to work I read in the paper a article about a Wing Commander in the RAF who had been killed when his helicopter had been shot down in Iraq. This Wing Commander had been a good friend of mine a few years back, I knew his then girlfriend, now widow. He was a top bloke, no airs and graces about him, an honest guy. He didn't deserve to die then and his wife and family didn't deserve to be widowed and fatherless.
Since then I've when things turn sour at work, I take a few deep breaths and remember my friend John and his family, and suddenly, it just doesn't become that important anymore: it doesn't stop me trying my hardest to do the best job I can, but it does stop me wallowing in self-pity ...
