Postive Fall Morning
After that last post, I went about my day getting work done and the more I thought about it the more I realized that the post was all doom and gloom and does NOT represent my current state of mind.
I just went outside and took this picture specifically for this blog post. It is the view I see from my front walkway this morning. The leaves are changing. There is a lot of green. It’s fall in New England which is a sad time as the leaves die and we go into winter, but it is also a sign of change and the coming rebirth of the leaves in the spring. I’ve always loved fall more then any other season.
I’m an optimist. ALWAYS have been. No matter how bad things have ever gotten in any aspect of my life I always know that things are going to get better. I firmly believe that a positive attitude is a critical part of a happy life and that as Steve mentioned in the comments, worrying doesn’t really get you anywhere.
Matthew Ebel wrote a great post this morning talking about how we’ve seen dark days before and we’ve always pulled through them. I like the idea of focusing the country on a goal. I want to see us focus on solving the energy crisis and the economic crisis. I think fixing them goes hand in hand. Focusing on a goal brings people together and allows them to focus positive energy rather then all negative.
I’ve always been that guy who has a shoulder to cry on and an ear to listen to you. As long as I can remember I was the person people came to because I am upbeat and carry a positive attitude with me wherever I go. I just couldn’t leave that dark and doomy post sitting at the top of my blog. Didn’t feel right to me because it is not who I am.
There, I feel better.
October 10th, 2008 at 10:33 am |
Thanks.
October 10th, 2008 at 12:20 pm |
That’s better. We don’t need two pessimists in the company.
October 11th, 2008 at 4:13 am |
CC - ever hear the Jimmy Buffett tune “Its My Job”? My favorite version comes from an album titled Live in Mansfield, MA because it comes with some real commentary about the various characters in the song and how the message applies to others.
It is clear that you know your job is to be bright and optimistic, but I am an engineering and financial analyst type who has learned that optimism does not fix the pipes, improve the numbers, or make the electricity flow.
What I hope happens from the mess that we are in is that people realize that some parts of life (fixing bridges, operating power plants, building sewer systems, erecting electrified trains, building highways that work) involve hot, dirty, stinking work, but those parts need to be done. We have to give more respect and rewards to the people that do that work and a bit less to those who sit in nice offices and trade paper or digits all day. If that knowledge emerges after the fall we are having, the rebirth will be a wonderful thing.
On energy, at least, we have a clean, readily available resource that could be doing far more if we had been able to come up with even a 10th of $700 billion for new plant construction.
Oh well, did not mean to rain on your sunny post, but It’s My Job to be cleaning up this mess.
Rod Adams
Editor, Atomic Insights
Host and producer, The Atomic Show Podcast
October 13th, 2008 at 12:05 am |
Hi CC. I’m glad to see you in a better mood.
Well my friend, the “last post” only proof that you are human.
You don’t have to worry to get worried about anything some times, you just have to take care of getting around it. That’s evolution.
I try to feel optimistic too for the great part of the day, but some times odds beat me and then I think the world keep turning around and tomorrow will be another brand and better new day.
A lot of ideas comes to my mind, but I don’t know how to express them well in english. One of them is about our point of view. Some times when I feel blue, I try to compare my problems to the problems of other people. I know tihs is not the better way to go around the problems but it shows me another perspective. For exapmle if I had a bad day at my job, I think on other people that don’t even have a job and so the money to maintain their family. From their point of view I don’t have a problem.
I hope this little words help you to feel a little better. I know for the time this words reach you, you will already be better
Keep going my friend. Odds are for the ones who stop going. One friend and tutor of mine always advise me that the better times to invest (not only money) are the ones when no one makes investments, then when things get better, you will be much better cause your previous investments.
See you!
Nelson