Many unexpected!

There is an old saying, "Peace often comes before a thunderstorm." Even when you try to stay away from the chaotic world and bury yourself to focus on work, you will eventually realise that you won't stay away from this shelter.

It's a day with big thunder. My colleague was fired all in a sudden leaving us an ambiguous goodbye and a SMS message. We soon realized that more than one of our colleagues were laid off with immediate dismissal. My boss is one of the most forgivingful kind of creative, so it's just a bit unusual. The office was full of mauvais and weird atmosphere with a lot of speculation.

I expected my boss would call for a meeting with us and she did.

I never liked politics and didn't join the "gang" for lunches these days. That's the way I tried to be more focused on my busy work and my studies. After all, my ultimate objective is to optimize what I can learn from my study rather than what the hot gossip is about at work. Finally I didn't put work as my utmost priority and try to have some other goals /get a life from other means.

Still, the thunderstorm today did spoil my mood for work a bit. My colleagues probably found me less reactive and indifference to the news. Well, maybe I'm not as young or that close to that colleague. I just found it somehow happen in every corner of the world. I've seen it a couple of times.

Actually I received quite many bad news these days. A nurse friend who complaint her boss treated her unfairly and made her very nervous at work. A friend who consistently dissatisfies with her work and is basically a constant job seeker. Another just told me her close friend lost her job in her mid-forties and need to live with limited savings while paying the handsome mortgage every month. A couple of friends' moms or dads need major surgery or have cancers.

In my today's health care economics class, my lecturer claimed that his opportunity cost was too high that he decided to do nothing to improve his health maintenance. But he's still perfectly healthy though fat. But there were many unfortable ones like a friend of mine who needs a kidney transplant but the recent biopsy simply just imposes more bad news.

I don't know what I can say. I feel rather indifference 'coz there were a lot more shocking news that I heard from other friends of mine like what I talked about.

I couldn't help to think of myself being a lucky one. I should be more content with life and everything seeing what the others have to go through in their life.

So I can only send my blessings to those I know and may other people learn to see the positive side of our life and our work.

Of course, I need a bit of blessing to get over a cold, too.