“The Mission” began in February 2017 when I committed myself to eternal self-improvement. Every day I must improve my life or the life of someone around me. I gave a work colleague my old copy of Allen Carr’s “EasyWay to Stop Smoking”, it worked for me, I hope it works for her. She had a health scare recently, and despite being told she has to stop smoking, she is finding it hard to quit, which I can understand. I went from smoking twenty a day for sixteen years down to nothing, and I’ve been clean for near on the last five years.
It may not work for her.
It doesn’t work for everyone.
I hope it does for her.
Also, another colleague came to me and said “You’re a good listener”, and then proceeded to unload a very personal quandary on me. I used the skills I have learned so far to make her realise that I cant give her advice, but deep down she knows what decision she should make. Without going into too much detail, the ethical dilemma gravitates around “Is ignorance bliss?”, and whether an elderly relative should die without knowing something that would devastate them, but absolve the perpetrator of any further guilt. It’s a tricky one, but I got the impression that after our conversation she had decided that she knew what she was going to do.
Third item of note: A colleague asked me if I psychoanalyse people and situations. I answered “of course I do, it’s an aspect of my future vocation”. Nice bit of positive affirmation there. I didn’t even skip a beat. Answered straight up.
New category: “The Mission”. It’s not just “Rambling”. This is purposeful.
