Early Retirement for Injured Federal Employees
But that life was merely a pleasant dream where we could pick and choose the sequence of events; would the “trouble bin” ever be accessed? Would our scenes ever depict unhappiness, dismay, concern or of distraught loneliness? Would we ever open the lid to the Trouble Bin and take out the problems therein? Or, would we forever keep it closed and live blissfully within the confined pleasures of our sweetest dreams? […]
It is hard enough to keep things together without those “extras” impeding, interrupting and infringing upon one’s time. Then, when that proverbial “straw that broke the camel’s back” is placed before us, a sense of doom and gloom (another trite, overused and ineffective phrase that is applied as a euphemism to conceal the crisis-point of our existence) pervades and blankets, […]
The Biblical reference is where John the Baptist declared that his role in the historical narrative would naturally diminish by relevance in order for the primary character to loom large upon a world in need of a coming savior. Each of us strive daily to accomplish, achieve and advance (ah, the 3 “A’s” might be the title of the next New York Times Bestseller on the mass marketing list of self-help books); that is the natural inclination from birth to death – or, at the very least, until one has expended and exhausted the reservoir of stamina each retains for the daily battle of life itself. […]
Most of life’s events are characterized by coincidental stumbling; of chance meetings, of happening upon something that one is good at; or of taking on a job thinking that a couple of years of steady employment will allow for time while one tries to “find your direction”, as if compasses determined by magnetic fields will reveal the mysterious paths of life’s unsympathetic gaze. It is rare that one begins with a purposive mind, commits to it, shows a continuum of unwavering direction, and declares at the end that there was never a doubt throughout. […]