Though it was Sunday I had a rather hardworking day, not that weekends mean much in pandemic life (or, truthfully, in my non-pandemic life). I felt a little better for most of the day, well enough to work but not so well as to stand or walk much, so finished some long-pending work, started on others and even got a start on some accounting, though the rest of it will have to wait. So, hurrah I guess.
The highlight of the afternoon was a brief coffee break with the GF, sitting on the balcony, watching the neighbours talking to each other across from their balconies, lowering baskets of drinking water to the children playing volleyball, the men tying up vines, etc. A very pleasant neighbourly scene.
The lowlight of the day was when someone sent me a particularly poisonous forward:
When people let you down, you owe it to them to let them know.
Hiding disappointment breeds resentment – and sets them up to keep disappointing you.
Explaining how their actions fell short of your expectations isn’t unkind. It’s an investment in improving the relationship.
This is a quote from someone called Adam Grant, I’ve not heard of him but I gather he belongs to a tribe of charlatans and parasites I particularly loathe (motivational speakers, organisational psychologists, leadership gurus etc). Anyway, I was busy trying to devise a reply that explained how foul I thought this little quote was when I saw a whole string replies expressing enthusiastic agreement, so I decided to stew on it by myself.