Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for November 29, 2022

I know a guy who wouldn’t be happy unless he were miserable.

Amen, Sam. Remember, it’s always darkest before it’s completely black.

He has a point!

I love these occasional overhead perspectives. Scott, how do you decide on when to do them?

Sam is the eternal optomist

On a philosophical note, the vacant corner lot next to us is wooded. In the daylight the light comes through the trees and I can see the street beyond. At night our dog will bark at critters visiting the lot, but if I shine a powerful light into the trees I can’t see even half way across the lot, but I do see car lights as someone drives along the street on the other side.

The light I shine doesn’t do as much for me as the light shined toward me.

A blind man carries a lantern, not for himself, but others…

After I had been working at my current job for a few years, I bought an Eeyore stuffed donkey. I told everyone it was my office mascot to remind me that no matter how bad things were, they could always get worse. They thought I was joking. Then we got furloughed for 5 weeks.

Some people you can make happy. Some people just have less to complain about.

Always look on the bright side of life / If life seems jolly rotten / There’s something you’ve forgotten! / And that’s to laugh and smile and dance and sing…

If you adjust your expectations properly you’re never disappointed.

Hey Sam…

Have you never been mellow?

Have you never tried to find a comfort from inside you?

Have you never been happy just to hear your song?

Have you never let someone else be strong?

In 40 years I’ve never seen a woman wear a top like that in an office

He’s like grumpy cat.

There’s actually a thing called “depressive realism”, where people who are pessimistic often prove better at predicting and thus preparing for worst-case scenarios and other negative situations than optimists, who often never even believed such a situation could happen.

If he’s lived his life by way of “depressive realism” and then tried to become optimistic about life, he could have been caught flat by some unfortunate circumstance he might have otherwise seen.