Because my office is directly across the hall from the office
photocopier, I've become an expert on the machine. It's really not by
choice, it's mostly because I can't stand to look across and see the
blinking red light that signals something is wrong with it. It used to
make me mad that people treat me like the repairman for the thing and
that I'm often interrupted by people asking questions about it. That is
until I heard someone praising my ability to diagnosis problems with one
of the most important devices in our department. Because I had
headphones on, a coworker didn't think I could hear her telling a new
employee that I was the go-to person for info on how the fury-inducing
copier worked. When I heard her talking about me like that, I realized
that something that I looked at as an inconvenience was perceived by
others as a valuable skill and a help to them. Yes, there are times that
being interrupted will push all the wrong buttons with me but for those
times, I hope I just take a deep breath and look at it this way: how
often do we get the chance to ease someone's frustration just by knowing
the right buttons to push.
Five Minute Friday is a writing event that has writers spending five minutes writing on the same topic and then sharing them at http://katemotaung.com/five-minute-friday/ . This week's word is Time. Sometimes time feels like this, like we are in it. Standing inside it, watching life pass by. It is so easy to get stuck in a time - in our pain, in our hurt. We hear the ache tick away in our head like a giant clock. Time, instead, is a gift. More time with family, more time to accomplish goals, more time to see the world. When you are hurting, it seems like time takes forever. One day turns into another day, turns into another day. When we hate a job, the five days of time that make up a work week seem to go on forever. But those five days are also a gift. Because these days, a job is not a guarantee. I want to see time as gift, not as a chore. I want to be on the other side of it, wishing there was more of it. Making the most of every hour, minute, and second instead of
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