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Originally Posted by Argonus
One of my dogs died two Sundays ago, between 3 church services that I'm the soloist for, and I found her dead after the first, and buried her after the second.. making it to all three to sing. Did I want to? Absolutely not.. but I did it nonetheless.
Obviously your co-worker's in a much more horrible situation, Ken.. but.. I agree; you can't let the world stop spinning indefinitely when tragedy strikes, or you just compound the damage. Excuses don't help you.. they make things worse.
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Exactly. What people don't realize is that everyone has problems. I get annoyed when people think their problems outweigh others and it somehow entitles them to justify whatever actions they choose to perform.
Heck if we're all going to make excuses for everything let me give it a go...
In february I lost my grandmother. Because of he death, my birth mother who I had never met before, decided to attend the funeral and basically treat me like I was a POS and shouldnt have even been alive in the first place since she never wanted me (luckily my father has a brain). Anyways the shock of this whole ordeal with my birth mom seriously f'ed me up for a while.
Oh and my disabled sister who is in a wheelchair and needs constant care 24/7...well in the past 6 months she's had a total of 3 surgeries and has 1 more coming up in July as she's having more troubles the older she gets and is already a miracle she's survived this long. During one of her surgeries she was in 1 hospital for 1.5 months straight. Every single day regardless if I just got off my 12 hour shift at work I'd make the trek downtown and spend time with her and my parents who also stayed in the hospital with her.
I'm also planning a wedding and have not had a full day to just sit and chill on my days off in ages now.
I never miss work regardless the hand that I'm dealt with family or whatever...oh and did I mention my step-mother just got through her breat cancer treatments a while back and is still dealing with it.
But life goes on and I'm not one to say anything.
I don't talk about things nor do I make excuses for anything in life. My problems are plenty right now but they are not more important than others.
Ha I just ranted
