Another Day At Work - How Many More Years Of This?
Work - Yet Another Day!!
So today, I am sitting at work saying to myself, why did I come in today?! You feel like you have been here for hours and hours and it is only 10 am. You start counting how many more days until I retire, could it really be 10,609 more days until I can have my celebration? Then because you are thinking 'that just seems like it is too far away', you start counting minutes. Well, now I have 21,642,360 more minutes until retirement.
Well, guess what, the depression has now kicked in. 29 years just didn't seem so far away, I was convincing myself this won't take as long as it seems. Then, I went ahead and calculated the minutes. What was I thinking? Retirement has been something I have been looking forward to since the day I turned 30. Now, it just seems like there is another 50 years ahead of me. Thank God I didn't start calculating seconds. That would have pushed me over the edge!!
We are at our jobs everyday, doing what we are paid to do and no matter what, the minute we get there, we are looking forward to the end of the day. We all just seem to not enjoy anything about working anymore. I remember a time when you would look forward to work, seeing your co-workers, hearing all the stories they have from the night before, but the stories are running out. When you are at work, with the same people everyday, eventually the stories stop. Nothing to look forward to each day anymore.
We have become slaves to our work. Nothing seems fun at work anymore. We are all like robots. We get up each morning at the exact same time, get on the bus, or in our cars take the exact same amount of time to get to work. We finally get there and the whole day seems like dejvu. Didn't I already do this at another time?! Yup, yesterday.
Then, first coffee break, get your coffee, have your cigarette. Back to desk. LUNCHTIME!! Great, same sandwich as yesterday, have another smoke, grab another coffee, go back to desk. Last break, coffee, smoke, back to desk.
Then the joyous point of the day, time to go home. Take the same route, drinking coffee from the same coffee mug, cigarette. Finally, you are at home. Thank God for our families!!! They have interesting stories, new things they accomplished during the day and even humor. What ever happened to having this every day at work!? Now, I am excited again for my retirement and the joys of knowing I can enjoy those stories all day everyday.
Now 21,642,360 I am counting down. I can't wait until each day is a wonderful as the ones I have with my family.
Thank God for family, the only solice we have left!!
