I came across something from a book I re-read quite recently; it would be a bit long of a quote from a book since I want to provide some context, so here it goes: "In my final week of my internship... there were suddenly a few job openings in that organisation. A fellow intern friend suggested that I applied, especially since "I had the right qualifications" for one of the positions on offer. I obviously said no... I told her, "my plan was never to work for anyone", and "especially not for this organisation"... Her unyielding persistence was impossible to ignore. So... I submitted a bare form... A few weeks later... I got shortlisted... Three stages of interview later, I was hired." Okay, that (partially trimmed quote from the book) was just the context. The real content that I 'tagged' using a green sticky note in the book is...: "How did I feel? To be honest, I had mixed feelings. A part of me felt really disappointed with the new
A good life is not all about having pleasing moments, but how we make the moments pleasurable.