Honestly, it's been a really #$&!)*# sh*t and crap past few weeks thanks to an overall sense of helplessness brought about by politiking, endless bickering, back-stabbing and a general undermining of my confidence, capabilities and credibility with me fending the onslaught off with what little shred of dignity I have left. My friends and I often wonder why we continue working our asses off to make the powers that be look good and in return we get footprints on an already weathered face.. *sigh*
Then there's the gloomy markets .. go home check the papers.. lay offs here, there and well just about everywhere, inflation, disposable incomes, credit card debts.. *double sigh*
Switch on the box to catch up on the world, and what do you end up with, endless bickering, back-stabbing and general sense of ineptness in what is seemingly a crippled sense of government. Switch the channels, all one sees is those global stock exchanges in red criss-crossing across the fancy graphs on screen.. *triple sigh*
Seriously, if there ever was a need to have an occupational hazard department, a psychologist and a friendly samaritan on hand, now would be good time... SERIOUSLY. There's certainly a case to be made for the onset of a wide-scale depression!
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Anyway, the earth's gravitational pull has been incredibly strong for me of late as I've been really feeling down in the dumps lately, if my status updates are anything to go by. Until today. Relief came in the most unusual situations. I was looking up a kanji online (since the translator is so friggin expensive!) and chanced on a Japanese proverb site purely by accident.
The first one was:
壁に耳あり、障子に目あ り
the walls have ears, the paper doors have eyes..
Sounded like a chinese proverb i've chanced on before .. I was like Sh*t!! that's a good one to describe the crap going around my life lately.. one day I vented my frustration and ended up in tears.. someone noticed, and the fact I was crying went round the office faster than you can say "hold on.".
I scrolled down the site and chanced another one:
猿も木から落ちる。
even monkeys fall from trees
"Yeah man!" I thought out loud. I can only do so much with what limited resources I have access to. Anyway, I don't proclaim to know everything and will definitely make mistakes. No one is perfect damnit. Even the powers that be make mistakes mah..
by this stage I was on a roll and then I chanced on:
井の中の蛙大海を知らず。
A frog in a well does not know the great sea
Sometimes, people are simply satisfied to pass judgement based on their own narrow experience, never knowing of the wider world outside.
Nuff said.. and all I wanted to look for was 勝者 and 信じ..
