Hello Blogosphere! Man it has been a busy few weeks, so busy I couldn’t even make it to Tumblr! Sad. I know. In these past few weeks I’ve had a number of life altering experiences including climbing to over 11,000 feet for the first time, which was pretty beyond amazing—but I have to say that upon my return to the northeast, I’ve come to a scary realization of the distrust involved with so many of those around me.
Drama, drama, drama? Yeah I’ve been hearing a lot of that. Primarily from grown, well established adults that work alongside me and can never seem to just get along. Each and every day its the entire office talking trash about whomever isn’t in or around at that point in time. It almost works like an event in such a way that they are just waiting around for a person to step out so that every aspect of their personality can be picked at until it dies…or until they step out again that is.
They wonder why their work relationships don’t mesh and flow well together but it’s so obvious, I almost feel bad writing about it without them knowing because it almost feels like I’m spreading the drama. But oh well, I’m going to do it anyway.
They create problems in their own minds that don’t exist and then try to bring them out to others while spreading lies and miscommunication until the moment they go home at night. A simple question that requires a simple answer quickly turns into a vow of disappointment or angst against another. Someone else’s mistake that turns in to this person’s mistake and all of a sudden reflects poorly on that person over there.
Nothing can be simple. It can only be difficult…and it can only be a problem. And rather than addressing the issue with the person involved, they feel it more effective to just complain about it to the rest of the office or beneath their breath, but loudly enough for us all to hear.
Is there no hope for growing beyond the years of high school? Is it just where I work now that acts like this or will I encounter this type of behavior from adults for the remainder of my years until I give up and move to a cave somewhere?
I’m honestly becoming more and more fed up with it every day. I can deal with it all on a micro scale, but the thought of these types of people surrounding me for the rest of my working days freaks me out! I came to college and worked my butt off so that I could avoid this sort of struggle and clash of personalities, but I’m terrified that I won’t be able to escape these people unless I legit take a drastic turn in lifestyle and move to a unheard of mountain town out west selling wallets to passer-bys.
I don’t like being around these types of people. They honestly make the world a less trusting, more stressful and overall far worse and exhausting place due to their outlook and treatment toward others.
We need to be real with people. We need to help people. We need to be there to support other people in any circumstance. We can’t have the thought in the back of our minds that we can’t trust this person I’m work alongside everyday. I think every day about what my office says about me when I’m not in there… and granted, there are a few exceptions to all this and there are people I know I can trust and believe in, but who knows what else is going on behind my back. It literally is an adult version of high school, where everything matters, everything is a problem and everything has to be blown out of proportion.
I want to see not only a work environment, but a real world, in which a certain level of trust can be expected among fellow people. For what are we if aren’t trusting? I honestly believe you have very little value to the world and as a person if you have a reputation for being untrustworthy…and the fact that I’m around these people nearly everyday makes me sick to my stomach.
So do what you can to make the day of even just one person each and every day… you’ll feel better, they’ll feel better…and that energy will spread to everyone the both of you come in to contact with. You’ll create a better world because of it.
Negative attitudes and outlooks on life will only create such a reality and this will send you into a downward spiral of distaste and discomfort with people in general.
I wish you luck in life, be happy, be kind, be generous and you will be rewarded in one way or another. I promise.
