http://www.readermeetauthor.com/2005/03/24/life-full-time-job-benefits-optional/ "Have you ever escaped from a shipwrecked life..." Sat, 11 Oct 2008 13:32:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.readermeetauthor.com/2005/03/24/life-full-time-job-benefits-optional/#comment-43 Reader Meet Author » Top “Top 5″ Posts From Group Writing Project Day 1 Wed, 09 May 2007 03:32:28 +0000 http://readermeetauthor.com.customers.tigertech.net/?p=24#comment-43 [...] in many Western cultures.  We’re so busy and so stressed that we don’t make time to apply the brakes and spend a few moments each day releasing tension.  With a little careful relaxation, the stress [...] [...] in many Western cultures.  We’re so busy and so stressed that we don’t make time to apply the brakes and spend a few moments each day releasing tension.  With a little careful relaxation, the stress [...]

]]> http://www.readermeetauthor.com/2005/03/24/life-full-time-job-benefits-optional/#comment-42 Reader Meet Author | Selfish For Self Fri, 07 Jul 2006 15:09:32 +0000 http://readermeetauthor.com.customers.tigertech.net/?p=24#comment-42 [...] Back in March of last year, I wrote this in a post called Life: Full-time Job; Benefits Optional: You can work your full time job [live your life] and get your benefits package at the same time (and maybe have your cake and eat it too if you’ve got the extra time). But it’s not going to be given to you. We’re going to have to go drag that little bugger into the picture… kicking and screaming, if need be. Life will take and take and take until it can’t take anymore… if you let it. Life owes you nothing. It doesn’t owe any of us a damn thing. Nor does anyone else. You can save the lives of a thousand orphans on a burning bus (it’s a very large bus… or very small orphans… stay with me here)… and still, you’re not really owed anything. But that doesn’t mean you can’t collect on the debt life has created in your existence. [...] [...] Back in March of last year, I wrote this in a post called Life: Full-time Job; Benefits Optional: You can work your full time job [live your life] and get your benefits package at the same time (and maybe have your cake and eat it too if you’ve got the extra time). But it’s not going to be given to you. We’re going to have to go drag that little bugger into the picture… kicking and screaming, if need be. Life will take and take and take until it can’t take anymore… if you let it. Life owes you nothing. It doesn’t owe any of us a damn thing. Nor does anyone else. You can save the lives of a thousand orphans on a burning bus (it’s a very large bus… or very small orphans… stay with me here)… and still, you’re not really owed anything. But that doesn’t mean you can’t collect on the debt life has created in your existence. [...]

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