Sunday, September 26, 2004

Got Problems?

Oftentimes a person faces problems in one's own life that can, in some way, pile up on you. It's somewhat like being at the beach and the crashing waves are continually beating down on you so much that one doesn't have time to catch his or her breath. If one doesn't come up for air pretty soon that person will metaphorically drown. In some aspects of life, each of us has been somewhat through the same problems but situations may differ. It's just a matter of having your sense of humor, if you have that, then all is well.

For those that are in pursuit of high learning and wanting to attain that proverbial holy grail called a degree. Yet, there are those tiny glitches that can become overwhelmingly big problems. Problems such as school bills which a person can feel may or may not be paid. Finding the time to do homework, all the while working a job is grueling both mentally and physically. It's the tiny things in the pursuit of higher learning in one's own particular field of interest that can cause problems to the point of giving up.

Another instance is in one's own workplace and the people you work with. It can sometimes feel that when a person immediately enters his or her workplace, the problems just start to mount. It always begins with one's own boss as he or she starts to pile paperwork after paperwork one one's desk. Then there are your co-workers that can get on your nerves and just want to beat the crap out of them. If compared to, it would be somewhat like the movie Office Space, a movie I highly recommend for your viewing pleasure.

One's own love life can suffer problems as a person finds that his or her potential and/or significant other isn't on the same page as you so to speak. There is a saying that goes that the fires that two people once shared are slowly burning out and inevitably one or the other must have that "we gotta talk speech" which is never a really good thing. Every person has problems just finding that one person that he or she can click with. Each of us will meet that one person eventually, we just have to be patient.

In the end, the problems we face along the path of life that each of us are on will come and they will go. One's own family life can be added to the list as well. Let me ask you this, are you the type of person who gives up too easily once those problems pile up or do you tackle them head on? Each of us will suffer problems that will be a thorn in our side, but those thorns can be cut off. In retrospect, every person thinks that they've got problems, but there are those that have much bigger problems than we do, just turn on the news.

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