If you aren’t a part of the solution, then you are the problem.
I almost bitched slapped my coworker at our staff meeting today. Doing what she has done for the past 4 years, every single fucking week, she started rattling off a list of complaints about our organization and department and all the reasons we fail at what we do. Honestly, I don’t know why no one has shut her down before.
But here’s the thing, I have nothing to lose. I am not afraid of getting fired anymore because I know that this is not what I want to be doing with my life. And while I would like to leave with dignity and grace, I am not going to remain a corporate punching bag until my time is up.
I fucking stepped up today and gave her everything I had and it still wasn’t enough. I am done.
People who complain and bitch and moan are like poisonous vultures. Everything thing in their life fails because they don’t do a god damned thing to change it. They broadly state, “this is the way the world is” with a sweep of their hand and then sit huddled in a corner in fear trying not to let the metaphorical meteor hit them. I get it, I totally get it. I lived my life that way for a good seven years.
But FUCK. THAT. NOISE. If you aren’t waking up every single god damned day and actively contributing to the state of your well being and happiness, get out of the fucking game. A loser is someone who doesn’t even try.
I have no tolerance for people LIKE THAT. I don’t want you in my life or even with in ten feet of me. Things do get better, change is possible. But it’s not going to come from some magical external force or idiotic superstition- it comes from hard work, it comes from within and it starts with you.
Man up. Because I know this is not the kind of life I want to live; everyday, it gets better. It’s beyond my wildest dreams better.
/soapbox.
