Last month our group went team building in Sri Lanka. Although being called team building, it is de facto an welfare outing of the company.
I was assigned to live with my colleague Carmen, a plump and considerate girl whom I’ve been working with for over 2 years.
A responsible person as she is, she even took her laptop with her, for it “might be of some use when necessary”.
On the forth day of the trip we stayed in the hotel, for we were too tired to go for the other scenic spots. I borrowed the laptop from her to export the photos from my camera. Then I saw the Cloud Note she was writing on, which she might had forgotten to turn off). I saw a line “This year, be a better self” then I realized it was something personal and turn it off instantly.
Although I was embarrassed to see the line, I dont know how to describe the feel I had at that moment… It was like, I’m a little ashamed to say so, someone who seems very much the type of person who “goes with the flow”, is actually pretty much the same as myself. In fact, maybe all people are trying to be a better person. It’s just how hard they work and how much they have proven themselves.
Never never underestimate how much people want to change themselves into a better version.We are just the same.
It is much harder to stay idle than to work hard——isn’t it sound absurd? No it isn’t. When idling away the time, though being relaxed physically, we actually suffer from our self-abuse of incompetence and our remorse of wasting time. Believe me, this kind of remorse hurts a lot more than work hard and sleep with a physically tired body and a mentally exhilarated heart.
Maybe that’s why many top-ranking tech companies are so open that they even allow their employees to do what they want for an hour or so during daily work time.
They just understand that people, at least their employees who have work so hard to be part of the team, are the “evolve” type of people, who never stop to make progress.
Weekends with Evelyn 