It was a snow day! My work closed and I got a chance to spend the day at home with the kids for much needed rest. I did precious little. Allowing myself to mentally recover is important. I had to learn that the hard way. In the past I pushed myself way too much and ended up having a mental breakdown.
Okay, I might have indulged. Popcorn is one of my favorite snacks. This? Caramel corn with white/dark chocolate - helped me recover. I mainly worked on puzzles and tried to think about the future.
Which was a good thing because I feel like the immediate medical events have all been settled. That heaviness was dragging me down. Plus just living with the ever present hypertensive crisis lurking, makes it hard for me to think about adding new things to my plate. Like I wrote before, I'm tired of living in survival mode. The last few months have been brutal for me. I have to respect that truth. Numbers that high are an indicator of a signifcant problem that needs to be taken seriously. I do feel better when I rest.
Yet if I didn't have purpose, I wouldn't find the motivation to tackle some of the harder issues in my life. Maintaining that balance is harder than I'll ever be able to describe. But something I was thinking about yesterday - limitations. Are the ones placed on us by other people harder to endure than the ones we place on ourselves?
I don't know the answer. Maybe I should ask the AI.
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lol. I'm not sure the AI understood the question either. As a fiction writer - that's a creative prompt. Somehow it's bringing to mind prayer requests from the 'responsible' conservatives after yet another plane crashed and the only solution provided by leadership is to terminate air traffic controllers in what appears to be a lottery system based on the clipped dirty word of the day: probation.
I'm struggling to understand the context and motivation. How did out of touch politicians manage to inflect the word probation onto probationary workers? I'm seriously concerned wealthy people who have never worked a day in their life somehow misunderstood the word meaning to have a negative connotation as it applied to competitive service individuals deeply engaged in high demand careers.
If I hadn't witnessed their total inability to assess reality and the world we all find ourselves in - I might give them more credit but there are significant cognitive challenges happening with our politicians. They can't remember, they have no ideas. They have no knowledge or understanding of institutional norms and why they exist.
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Here is what a simple google search revealed:
If this is what they pulled, this makes sense on why they believe terminating high quality rare employees is a good thing. No wonder they're so confused on why they're receiving negative feedback. It says right here that it's cost effective.
Sigh. I wish I didn't see this stuff sometimes. This actually explains a lot of their behavior. It's very possible they don't know that probationary workers are not on probation. Wow. That's enough for tonight. My own mind is breaking from trying to interpret this situational.
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