All Things Patrick - Working Hard to be Lazy!

I'm sorry for waiting so long to type this up. I've been thinking about this for a while and something that happened this weekend prompted me to sit down and type.

Recently I was able to talk to an old high school friend of mine. We discussed what we'd been up to since the last time we'd talked and while it lasted longer than it should have (got to love questions for detail and then complaints about the discussion lasting too long ;)) we discovered that both of us had been going through some crap at about the same time. He thought my ordeal was worse, but on the flip side I wouldn't want his troubles.

The question he asked of me though was, did you ask God why you were going through all of that. As Phillipe [Matthew Broderick] said in Ladyhawke, ...the truth is I talk to God all the time.... On the other side of that I never asked about my ordeal - the part that bothered me wasn't necessarily getting fired, it was that someone I trusted stabbed me in the back due to their insecurity about their job. Either it was my fault for being too trusting (this isn't the first time something similar has happened) or God was simply reminding me that people are human.

However, I think what my friend was more worried about has been my erratic career. I think the best thing my consulting career has taught me thus far is that no job is permanent. And looking back to several times when my dad was worried about his own job, even government jobs are not secure. Plus, I'm not sure that my goal has ever been to have a safe, secure, permanent job so it's not been something I've worried about.

We should all be familiar with the basic principal of the circle of life. We're born, we consume, we die, and are consumed. Everything in nature has it's part to play in the circle of life.