Today sucked. I wanted to get to work early, and get out early. So what do I run in to? A closed freeway and a closed alternate route. I get to work still with sunshine in my eyes, even though I'm late, happy to see that no one is at work yet so who would know if I was late or not? I open up my Lotus Notes to the delightful sight of only five or six new emails... but to my demise I look at the resumes my coordinator pulled for me, and not only were there only SIXTEEN resumes, but almost half of them were two hours away from the territory I was recruiting for. As she wonders on in to work around 10pm, I let her know that I am going to need more quantity and they will need to be geographically closer to "X" location. "OK, sorry" she says. Whatever. I make my calls, and out of the sixteen resumes I get one person to answer the phone and I set the interview.
Lunch:
Geek and Eat today. I eat lunch with my favorite club ever, The Nationwide Gaming Club. What is super cool about this is that I have influenced three people to break out their old Magic cards. We played a four player game at lunch today and it was RAD!! It's the coolest thing to know that I had influence and hyped people up enough to want to dig out old cards that have been collecting dust ever since the incredible spread of the MMO (specifically World of Warcraft) and play a fantastic, strategy based collectible card game. It was exciting to see that my excitement for this game I've played for nearly ten years has inspired others to play again.
Back to work...
A dreadful meeting at 1:15 in which I had to prepare a TON of shit for, I gave myself and hour and fifteen minutes to prep this info but it ended up taking nearly two hours. The stress from holding up the meeting was already a lot to deal with, and then IN the meeting I was bogged down by even MORE stress. I won't waste time on why I was stressed by this meeting or how my workload is unmanageable, but it was a ridiculously tedious process leading up to the meeting and even more tedious in the meeting that by the time I was out I wanted to throw myself out of the seventh floor of my building.
That being said, I was ultra grumpy, wanted to leave, and had to conduct a 4pm interview that was just a complete flop, the guy was a Tool Bag, and I was not focused on the interview anyway and probably should have ended it after five minutes but I gave him the entire 25 just for the hell of it, I guess.
The stress of the day put me in a dreadful mood which resulted in my famous trait of taking things out of proportion, over-analyzing things, and letting it sink into my skin. The consequences of this resulted in some inappropriate and selfish words to a very dear person of great influence in my life; but I am THANKFUL that he happens to be a better person than I am and explained himself, explain what I did wrong and what I should have done, and in turn forgive me.
After leaving work and soaking in the silence of a drive home w/ no radio or phone calls or emails, I get to come home to a smiling face waiting for me. A trip to Walmart for a few booster sets of Magic cards, and a quick game makes it all better.
Now, relaxing at home, reflecting on my faults, and his strengths makes me realize how important and essential it is to have a center of influence in ones life - that influential person not only inspires one to live more, do more, be better - but the also balance you out and constructively make you aware of your faults - and they do this to make you a better person. They do this because they are unselfish, they love, and they are amazing by nature.
I believe the influence of another over someone leads to a ripple effect - influence one to do "X" and then "Y" and "Z" will soon follow.
I hope, at one point, I can provide influence to someone more than just to play a game, but influence them to improve themselves, their abilities, and live a happier life.
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