Last night I was watching a movie on my laptop and saw a cemetery in that movie and my thoughts wandered off to somewhere unusual place which I wouldn't think of when i'm at home. and yes I never would ever want to think of my workplace once at home unless very important(which could cause potential loss to business, after all "business of business is business").
The cemetery reminded me of our cubicles, the boxes with names, similar to rows of graves. the difference I found was that body was at rest in a grave and in the cubicle the body is not supposed to be rested but the spirit is at rest. In office I think the best strategy is to keep your "self" at home and try to get the best hike in the next appraisal (not best employee, not best colleague, not best subordinate). I have found this with my seemingly less experience but, enriched from what I have gathered from seniors, colleagues and subs all these years.
Back to cemetery other difference, physical, I found that the name plates don't have dates of birth and death on your cubicle. obviously, you are alive. But why do they put dates on the graves, does it really matter, may be they want to help the guy who digs graves, just to remind him that how fresh the grave is and put him off when he thinks to make space when the cemetery is full, other than this I don't find any sound reason, any ways coming back to cubicles I think they don't put anything else on your name plate because it doesn't matter unless you perform for your place else somebody's waiting all the time.
Ciao Amigos
Nope, you forgot the basic difference. Struggle for living is driving you to cubicle, when you loose this struggle you head to grave.
ReplyDeleteThe struggle for living ends at grave, very true, that's not always driving you. Many times its something else, boss, dignity, wife, integrity, and nonsense.
ReplyDeleteAnd not all lost struggles end up in grave... Many people have lived immortally after they lost in the cubicle, Lincoln,