Sempre em nome do progresso

A nível profissional, estou mais que farta de:

Arrogância q.b.

Competição desbragada

Desonestidade

Despotismo

Egoísmos

Falsas urgências

Falsidade

Hipocrisia

Hostilidade

Húbris

Incertezas

Indiferença

Individualismo (“teamwork” parece ser um conceito relegado para os compêndios de gestão)

Inveja

Malvadez

Medo

Mentiras e os mentirosos que as dizem

Mesquinhices

Nepotismo/Cronyism (usually under the guise of "networking": it’s not what you know, it’s who you know)

Obsessão com golos a curto-prazo em detrimento do bem estar a médio ou a longo prazo

Prepotência

Resignação/Conformidade (if you can’t beat them, join them)

Sorrisos falsos

Superficialidade

Vaidades

Powertrips

Indentured servitude

(never-ending) Rat race

(ever-present) Assholes

E cada vez com menos paciência para aturar tolos arrogantes.

Se não me acautelo, um dia destes ainda cometo um acto de elevada dose de irresponsabilidade: 

 

 

Depois sinto aquela fugaz paz e alívio que tanto procuro, seguindo pouco tempo depois do medo de um futuro incerto...e de remorsos por ter perdido a cabeça.

Quando o “status quo” chega ao ponto de afectar a nossa saúde e bem estar, quando a nossa autenticidade corre perigo...é altura de mudança radical. Acho que o maior favor que podemos fazer a nós próprios é continuarmos fieis àquilo que realmente somos e nunca perder a noção do que verdadeiramente conta.  Chegamos a um ponto em que as falsas urgências se tornam insuportáveis e vender a alma ao diabo é a última coisa que queremos – custe o que custar, doa a quem doer. Então, por vezes tomamos decisões destas, após muitas noites de sono perdido a pensar nos prós e contras e em tudo que pode correr mal. Estas decisões nunca são bem vistas pelos outros, sobretudo aqueles que nos querem bem e que se preocupam connosco, mas fazem-nos sentir tão bem... E se não formos nós a cuidar de nós próprios, quem o faz?

Tenho de reprimir esta urgência antes que faça algum disparate...

 

Breathless!

[ de tirar o fôlego e chorar por mais: na minha próxima vida vou meter um requerimento para que alguém me cante isto ;-)  ]

Neil Young’s Harvest Moon

Não sei porquê, mas esta música põe-me bem disposta e quanto mais vejo o video, mais gosto dele.

Porque é que nos preocupamos?

People worry for a variety of reasons; some valid, some not so much. While some of us are natural-born worrywarts who tend to dwell unduly on troubles, difficult times or not-so-rosy predictions, others are more of the school “Live and Let Live” or “Worry About It When The Time Comes.” But we all worry. I tend to belong to the first group, perhaps because life hasn’t always been as kind as I would have liked but, like so many other valuable lessons, I’m finally starting to see the futility of worrying about things that are beyond my control – one of the reasons why death no longer scares me. This is also the primary reason why I no longer worry about the nefarious impact that public policy may have on the future of my country – what’s the point? As someone who has a tendency to worry (perhaps a little too much) about loved ones and life’s dreaded what-ifs, whenever I find myself going down that road I ask myself a simple question: Can I do anything that can possibly change the outcome of things? If the answer is “no” I shrug my shoulders and go on with my life as best as I know how, hoping for the best and that the overwhelming sense of foreboding that often times envelops me is a mere overreaction on my part. What else can I do? This is also one of the reasons why I refuse to watch the news on TV – I do my best to avoid negativity and dire predictions like the plague!

Perhaps people who worry too much feel that they are unworthy of joy, or perhaps they’re just terrified of being vulnerable. They either believe that they don’t deserve happiness for themselves or that bliss will inevitably bring sorrow, so, to avoid a painful fall, they unconsciously believe that they must “protect” themselves by worrying – that way it will not hurt as much in the event of something bad happening. The problem is that over worrying does not prepare us for a true tragedy and if nothing bad happens we’ve wasted valuable energy worrying for nothing, sometimes even affecting our lives and that of those around us. We are all unique, we all have our own idiosyncrasies and peculiarities, our odd ways and reasons for acting a certain way; to try to become better human beings, this is where introspection, observance, and lots of silence come into play. Those who fear loneliness need not apply. It is also imperative that we surround ourselves with like-minded souls, not necessarily those who agree with us on everything, but folks who complement us and help us become the best versions of ourselves.  

  

 “When we’re overwhelmed by love, we feel vulnerable – so we dress-rehearse tragedy”—Brené Brown. (on why we worry about loved ones)

“If you worry about the worst case scenario and it happens, you’ve lived it twice.” – Michael J Fox. (on worrying about things that may – or may not – happen)