June 25, 2007
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Currently I'm sitting in a warehouse in some town outside of LA, listening to my cousins' band practice in the next room. They've improved since the last time I heard them (which was a year ago). Right now there's a lot of things going through my mind about where my life is going from this point forward. I've visited the station in LA that I've applied to and my chances of getting the job look favorable. I'll find out for certain sometime during this upcoming week whether or not I've gotten it. I guess there's always fear whenever you're faced with the unknown, especially when it comes to doing something new or going somewhere with your life that you've never ventured before. Although I've lived in many places in New York and New Jersey, I've never made a home for myself outside of the two states that I consider my native territory, and the notion of just picking up and transplanting myself across the other side of the country where I know only my family can be a frightening thought at times. Even so, I firmly believe everything happens for a reason. Whatever happens in the next few weeks and months, I'm sure it'll be for some greater purpose that I'm as of yet unable to discern within the larger picture that composes my life.
"It seems to me what is called for is an exquisite balance between two
conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that
are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas.
If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On
the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have
not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish
useful ideas from the worthless ones."
- Carl Sagan (1987 lecture "The Burden of
Skepticism")
Comments (10)
cool. is your cousins' band going to be playing any shows soon?
The crossroads and challenges you face pose a choice for you between the ordinary and the adventurous. Hope that you're able to choose according to doors that open and the risk you're willing to take!
you're in LA?
I'm glad you're having fun in LA. I'm sure it doesn't make up for the "great job everybody, but you're not getting your bonus because we didn't make enough profit" that we heard at work. Unless you're a manager. In which case, blah.
That may very well be the quickest reply to a reply I have ever gotten. It's like you're following me through the rooms in Xanga. lol!
I think I'm delirious from too much FedEx. lol.. (That and I'm currently tracking a UPS package... Shhh... don't tell anybody)... Last week was GSE training, including Tug, Commander 15 and 30, belt loader, 727, etc... I felt like I lived at work... 41 hours when I normally do 17.
Yes, airplane lingo. The tugs pull the cans of freight, the commanders are the big things you have to not hit the plane with, the belt loader is the little thing you have to not hit the plane with. And if I hear about another ten thousand dollar latch or how a dent cost four days and x dollars in repair, I might throw something at the plane myself. lol! 727 woud be the smaller of the three big planes we get. (there's two feeders below that) First day I trained, the plane was named Hunter. Stupid random fed ex trivia - all the planes have human names... Wanna guess why?
LOL.. Each plane is named after a child of a high positioned manager. No clue why that idea came to mind, but it's interesting and useless.
wow...you sure have a deep perception in everything that happens to your life. cool.
whoa, congrats on the job dude. youre so money and you dont even know it.
Hello Alexander,
I like your site that you worked hard to make simple yet elegant. The videos are a nice touch. I see that you are pondering your future. We may make our plans but they won't change God's plans for us!
I like to write articles about God and religion on my site to help people to really get to know God, especially in these troubled times: 14 "When the good news about the kingdom has been preached all over the world and told to all nations, the end will come." (Matthew 24:14) (CEV (Luke 11:9-10) I hope you get a chance to look at them.
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