Wk2 Reading: Art of Possibility, ch 4-6

This is such a deja-vue moment with this chapter. I am heading to the National Career Academy in TX and after getting on the train at the Atlanta airport, it begins to jerk as it begins to move forward. I quickly held on along with my group who was traveling with me. We were not expecting the train to jerk so hard on take off. So as all of us scramble trying to catch our balance, I said "man, they didn't even give me time to learn how to poll dance" and my crowd and others who were on the train broke out in loud laughter after my statement. You see, we could hold on to the polls bolted to the ceiling and floor of the train or the hand hoops hanging from the ceiling. Due to the fact I'm short anyway, I grabbed the nearest one closest to me to keep from falling and it just happened to be the poll.

In their book, the Zander's talk about rule 6 which is "Don't Take Yourself So Goddamn Seriously and that's really how I try to view life. I try to find humor in everything I do because it makes me feel good and when I feel good, I make the people around me feel good. I use to always wonder why I attracted all these mean people into my circle. I'm referring to those people who always start an argument when someone looks at them wrong and make comments like "I hope you find what you're looking for" all sarcastically. They always end up trying to be my friend. I really don't want to befriend them because they are so mean to other people and I am just not that kind of a person. I want to love everyone and see the best in everyone so I can't fathom being rude and mean to people. Anyway, I remember asking another one of my co-workers to shield me from that co-worker who is famous for starting silly arguments for no reason. Then she asked me why I was trying to hide from her and I told her because the other co-worker embarrasses me when she treat people rudely in my presence. She then stated that the only reason she is drawn to you is because she would love to have your sense of humor and love for people but she don't know how; so she hang around you so she can laugh because no one wants to hang around her. That got me to thinking...there appeared to be some truth in what she had said. I observe this mean co-worker of mine laughing only when she was around me. Even though I really don't want to hang with her because of her behavior, I still don't treat her any different than I would someone else. Whereas other co-workers would frown and walk away when she came near which made her even madder. I'm really appreciative that they wrote a section on humor.