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  • #121540
    greenshade
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    Hey guys!
    Hope you’re all doing well!
    So the people I work with are decent people, they are however cynical and world weary, and I feel I am becoming more like that also. So please if anyone has any uplifting stories, words of wisdom, or loving support in general I would appreciate it!
    Lov,
    m

    #121619
    Anonymous
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    Dear greenshade:

    Good to come across another thread from you!

    The world does require some weariness. Often enough people are not trustworthy. Am I “cynical and world weary” or just realistic?

    anita

    #121641
    Nina Sakura
    Participant

    Dear greenshade,

    Most of us get bogged down by negativity – work pressure, home pressure, commute pressure, difficulty in finding trust worthy people, intrinsic lack of motivation. So hence the cynicism and weariness to suck it up.

    Or as the others called it – being the grumpy grown up.

    So in order to be the “un-grumpy” grown-up, my advice is three-fold:-

    1) Pursue something fun on the side that you enjoyed as a younger person. Maybe your secret love is music, writing, bike rides, photography etc without performance pressure. Have some variety in experience for the time you don’t have your work-place around you.

    2) Regarding movies, songs, speeches – I can suggest the following :

    A) speeches – listen to the Rocky Balboa speech which he gives to his son.

    B) Movies like October Sky, Shawshank Redemption, The Motorcycle diaries, Bhag Milkha Bhag (Indian movie), The Great Debators, The Lady, Peaceful Warrior, Limitless, this movie about a guy who can travel in time (not the time travellers wife, another movie) etc inspire me often.

    3) Most importantly, understand what drives you.

    Do you settle into routine and just get stuck in a mundane life going through the motions? We only get one life and the days pass by so quickly. That’s why being brow beaten about life is a waste – everyone will die eventually, why be “kinda dying from within” already? Even if every day is the same, it can be beautiful by altering ones perception of whatever we have in our life.

    I hope this helps a bit.

    Regards,
    Nina

    #121642
    Nina Sakura
    Participant

    Okay that movie is “About time” – makes number of beautiful points about life and the small things that make us feel alive from within.

    #122029
    greenshade
    Participant

    Hey Anita and Nina!
    I apologize for the late reply,have been knocked out with the flu this week, much better now.
    Anita: I guess I cynical and world weary doesn’t really describe it well. There are a lot of fights, a lot of people cutting corners which increases work for everyone else, camps where one group wont work with the other. Just making small things into unaccomplishable tasks for all of these reasons. Lots of snide remarks, and trying to pull each other down. This is my first experience of a work place, so I dont know if it is the culture that has developed here, or if other places are like this too.
    Nina: I looove the concept of “grumpy grown-ups” .That is exactly what I feel like I am morphing into. Thank you so much also, for the list of inspiring things. Will start with about time I think!

    #122039
    Anonymous
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    Dear greenshade:

    Over the flue soon, I hope.

    In your original post you wrote: “So the people I work with are decent people.” But the behaviors you described by your co workers: fighting, cutting corners, making snide remarks, pulling each other down… these are not behaviors of decent people.

    My advice: keep your behavior decent while you avoid being taken advantage of, be assertive and take care of yourself.

    anita

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