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Very stressful day yesterday. including 4.4 hours driving in heavy traffic on freeways and in cities.
Becoming increasingly aware how much life has changed since I was much younger.
How corporate policy affects us all, now, where it never did before.
How corporate policy translates to making us realize just how powerless we all are, now, in so many ways.
How someone working at a corporation also feels powerless, and like corporations, completely lacking in compassion, consideration, empathy: humanity.
Instead having to follow corporate policy and with their own humanity gone, just feeling petty glee in thwarting a human from doing what they need to do. Where this is the only area that they DO have power.
They can make no decision outside the rules set. So, they revel in rubbing it in, at best saying "company policy" or when rarely feeling some emotion saying "I just work here".
The stress and difficulty yesterday had nothing to do with a loan or a bank, but as example, I remember times when wanting a loan, we went to the bank owner, who had always been there, and if they knew you, assessed you by your record with them, by knowing you personally, by seeing how you handled your money, paid your bills, in short whether you were honorable and trustworthy based on human interaction and trust they had in you as a person they know.
That does not happen today, and it's very sad for all considered, corporate workers, the general public who are all influenced by this kind of behavior every day. With this mind set trickled down to most of us where we will tend to treat others the same inhumane way. Easily angry with other drivers on the highway, lack of consideration for others in business and personal interactions.
Quite a different world today.
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149.3 lb
Lost so far: 5.4 lb.
Still to go: 0 lb.
Diet followed 100%.
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Diet Calendar Entries for 25 August 2016:
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2365 kcal
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Fat: 86.21g | Prot: 182.31g | Carb: 246.44g.
Breakfast: MET-Rx Prime - Tan New!, Pure Protein Chocolate Deluxe High Protein Bar (Small), NutriBiotic Rice Protein - Plain, Not Just Nutrition Not Just Protein, Nature Made Magnesium Citrate, Dried Seaweed, Pure Hawaiian Spirulina, Water, BillsGingerJuice 1oz Raw Ginger Juice organic, Bill, Lemon Juice. Lunch: Kirkland Extra large Peanuts 1oz, Summer Squash, Carrots, Broccoli, Salmon, Kawan Food Vegetable Curry, Trader Joe's Curry Simmer Sauce, Trader Joe's Thai Yellow Curry Sauce. Dinner: Apples, Cypress Grove Chevre Humboldt Fog, Pure Protein Dark Chocolate Coconut High Protein Bar. Snacks/Other: Meijer Orange Sherbert, Pure Protein Chocolate Deluxe High Protein Bar (Small), MET-Rx Prime - Tan New!. more...
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losing 0.7 lb a week
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OMG yes, it is a very different world today. Greed and lack of empathy is prevalent and the root of all that is wrong with this world. IMHO. But, what can one do?
25 Aug 16 by member: NowIunderstand
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Yes, and what can we do? we can't change the world. True. But we can hold ourselves to very high standards: care about others, be empathetic, always honest. That way we have high self esteem, and with that we don't take it personally, what the world is like. :)
Also, complain here once in awhile. :)
26 Aug 16 by member: billtech66
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Maybe the world has not changed so much. We've just aged and take notice more. After all, the expression 'it's a dog eat dog world' was not coined recently. Or 'the world is going to the dogs' is another one that's been around awhile! :) the pessimists sure had dogs on their minds! Have a great Week end Bill !
26 Aug 16 by member: NowIunderstand
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< I can say that I agree with all you say! :)
Blessings to you. :)
27 Aug 16 by member: billtech66
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It used to be the wealthy, or aristocratic that held the rest down in various ways. But they were not invincible like Corporations are, who may go bankrupt, but are resurrected with money by governments from the general public or from other corporations taking them over. But are otherwise unable to die, or to be held Truly accountable for results of their unilateral choices. They can't be imprisoned, only fined what is to them a pittance.
Does sound familiar I guess to centuries past, but there is a difference that is disturbing.
27 Aug 16 by member: billtech66
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I agree - I work for myself independently because I cannot be "in the world" the way others would expect me to do my job - which is workign directly with people. I have to be my authentic self!
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Remember, it wasn't until corporations stopped giving raises to the middle class, since 1980, that most of us got fat, and sicker, and unhappy.
27 Aug 16 by member: billtech66
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Thanks HCB for your comments as well. :) Well said and well done. :)
27 Aug 16 by member: billtech66
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Corporate life is taking more of a toll on all of us than we can see. Such as it is, remember to savor the truly important things in life! Live Strong!
27 Aug 16 by member: fitmindbody
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I went deep down the corporatocracy conspiracy rabbit hole a few years ago, for maybe a little over a year. What I found was not only deeply disturbing, but insanely disempowering. While I still believe most of it it true, I shut that door and nailed it closed for my own peace of mind. If there's nothing I can do about something, why trouble my mind with it? I live life as simply as possible, as off-the-radar as possible, and do my part to make the little sphere around me a nicer place. Random acts of kindness DO change the world.
27 Aug 16 by member: mskestrela
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27 Aug 16 by member: billtech66
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@hbc / I know how you feel. I work for myself and from home. had the office experience and never fit in, never understood the <me, myself and I> attitude. it really is dysfunctional and chips away at your soul. you have to be thick skinned to work in the corporate world.
29 Aug 16 by member: NowIunderstand
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