pain points

I am all up for improvement, but when do we actually start believing that we’ve done a good job? I know that it is dangerous to be complacent. In the tough corporate world, once you start thinking that you are in any way good at what you do, that’s when the trouble starts. But can’t we at least just give ourselves that pat on the back? Everyone needs validation, once in a while. I have minimal requirements; I do not need hand-holding. You only need to leave me alone, too. I do not need veiled sarcasm and comments guised as feedback. I do not need, especially, the ego-tripping. If there’s a kind of person that I loathe, its intellectual snobs who think they know everything.

Just because I don’t bow down to your self-claimed greatness doesn’t mean that I don’t respect you. But then your constant self-important declarations just show that your mirror may have just come from the funny house. All fluff. The cupidity of power and influence can be quite heady. They say it’s a dog-eat-dog world and that it’s a constant rat race. I never did want to become a rat. And some dogs can be smelly. Worse, slobbering and rabid.

Moral authority- that’s one of my favorite phrases lately. For what authority do you have to say bad things about and demoralize a person, when you are not perfect yourself?

Ego, we meet again. My, how you have grown.

The character of a person is seen in the way one deals with difficult situations. As always, class and grace cannot be bought. Lesson learned: always be careful of what you say, how you say it and who you say it to. Target audience. Sadly, people always hear what they want to hear.