Life Lesson #1

Life Lessons To Be Learned While Scanning

by Racquel and Anna

Sometimes you're working on scanning the hundreds of rank books at work (it may not actually be hundreds, but it sure seems like it. Also, the rank books hold all of the university rankings, in case you were wondering). And you've got everything divided out the way it needs to go, and everything is going great. You're flying through scanning those documents, and you get to your last chunk of papers that need to be scanned. Then you hurry and pull up the email inbox of the email address you've been sending them all to so that you can check them off and move them to their special folder.

GASP. 

They aren't there! Only ONE of the scans came through because the inbox is full! 

Guys, this is a true story. I scanned about 20 groups of rank book papers, and only one of them made it successfully because the inbox was full. 

I wanted to be done scanning the rank books for the day right then and there. But then I thought to myself, hey, stuff like this happens in life all the time! And, I can't stop now. I have to actually finish the scanning for this book. And that's where the life lesson comes in. Sometimes you feel like you're flying through life, everything seems like it's going great, and then you realize that something went wrong wayyyy back there. Or you hit a rock and go flying (in the scrapes-and-bruises-all-over-your-body kind of way). But you have to keep going! If we stopped every time something like that happened, it would take us a long, long time to get anything accomplished. 

I shared this with Anna, and she came up with another application to this fine story. You are like the inbox, and sometimes you have way too much going on, and there just isn't any more room for anything else. So, you have to re-evaluate and decide what's important and what has to go. You have to take care of your inbox. :) 

We're so deep, you guys. It's like this is all we've been thinking about today (which is kind of true). Maybe we should write a book or something. That solves our what-are-we-going-to-do-with-our-lives dilemma. Hmm. 

See ya at the end of those rank books! 

Jk. Kind of.

from monikasis.blogspot.com