Comments on: Pain and Suffering http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/ news, notes, & tips about spirituality and religion in the workplace Fri, 22 Aug 2008 04:03:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Ms. Theologian http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/#comment-343 Ms. Theologian Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:43:32 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/#comment-343 Thanks, Elizabeth. And, how awful, Mile High Pixie that your father was murdered. My God. And on a much lighter note, I too search for that snack in the fridge. Thanks, Elizabeth.

And, how awful, Mile High Pixie that your father was murdered. My God.

And on a much lighter note, I too search for that snack in the fridge.

]]> By: Mile High Pixie http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/#comment-342 Mile High Pixie Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:28:42 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/#comment-342 HOw odd, Ms. T, that you should mention not asking why things happened to you. After my dad was murdered in 1997, I found that when I stopped asking why, the pain shifted to something more bearable, more tolerable, more...doable. Why things happen is pretty useless. Why only helps if you really really could have done something about it, and often times we humans are faced with the reality that we could not have done anything. Life is pretty random sometimes, and that scares us, so we keep asking why, hoping for a different answer, like returning to the refrigerator over and over in the same night, hoping that something decent to snack on has materialized itself on a shelf by the ketchup. On of my favorite comic strips is a Hagar the Horrible in which he's standing on his boat in the middle of a huge storm and shouting at the sky, "Why?" and a voice from the heavens shouts back, "Why not?!" HOw odd, Ms. T, that you should mention not asking why things happened to you. After my dad was murdered in 1997, I found that when I stopped asking why, the pain shifted to something more bearable, more tolerable, more…doable. Why things happen is pretty useless. Why only helps if you really really could have done something about it, and often times we humans are faced with the reality that we could not have done anything. Life is pretty random sometimes, and that scares us, so we keep asking why, hoping for a different answer, like returning to the refrigerator over and over in the same night, hoping that something decent to snack on has materialized itself on a shelf by the ketchup. On of my favorite comic strips is a Hagar the Horrible in which he’s standing on his boat in the middle of a huge storm and shouting at the sky, “Why?” and a voice from the heavens shouts back, “Why not?!”

]]> By: Elizabeth http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/#comment-341 Elizabeth Fri, 26 Oct 2007 00:22:03 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/#comment-341 Being from the south, I would say that that is quite accurate and funny. Ms. Theologian, I'm sorry for the year 2007 for you. I hope that what you want to happen happens. And I AM glad the fires stopped before getting your house. I wish my wishes for goodness could make a difference. I'm glad you haven't given up blogging all together. Elizabeth :) Being from the south, I would say that that is quite accurate and funny.

Ms. Theologian, I’m sorry for the year 2007 for you. I hope that what you want to happen happens.

And I AM glad the fires stopped before getting your house.

I wish my wishes for goodness could make a difference.

I’m glad you haven’t given up blogging all together.

Elizabeth :)

]]> By: Ms. Theologian http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/#comment-339 Ms. Theologian Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:13:58 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/#comment-339 I thought that was a pretty good one, CC. I thought that was a pretty good one, CC.

]]> By: Chalicechick http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/#comment-338 Chalicechick Thu, 25 Oct 2007 17:55:39 +0000 http://survivingtheworkday.com/2007/10/25/some-years-are-just-hard/#comment-338 One of theCSO's favorite jokes is: A bunch of scientists decided to study traffic accidents, so they put black boxes in cars. They were interested to find that in cars in most regions of the country, like in airplanes, people's last words before an accident occurred were "Oh, shit." The one place that was different was the south, where the last words before a traffic accident were most commonly "Hold my beer and watch this!" ----- I thought it might be to soon to send that to you when it happened. But I did think of it. CC CC One of theCSO’s favorite jokes is:

A bunch of scientists decided to study traffic accidents, so they put black boxes in cars. They were interested to find that in cars in most regions of the country, like in airplanes, people’s last words before an accident occurred were “Oh, shit.”

The one place that was different was the south, where the last words before a traffic accident were most commonly “Hold my beer and watch this!”

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I thought it might be to soon to send that to you when it happened. But I did think of it.

CC
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