First of all, it's pretty surreal that I'm actually writing a post a day after I put one up. I'm not sure what's gotten into me, but guess it's best to ride out the wave and go with the flow. Anyways, slap on this song that I've been listening to the past two weeks and let's gooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!
Assumptions
Let us dip back to last Sunday afternoon. Every Sunday I work a full day (nine hours) at a sushi restaurant, and while it can be tiring and affect me negatively, it's good for the most part. Anyways, enough about that.
Our place, like many others, run a special, where you can choose any three items and get a miso soup with it for around $10. A group comes in with three adults and four kids, and the waitress I was working with tends to them. I don't know what I do for the next few minutes or so, but she has taken their order and asks me to help her prep and serve miso soup to that table.
She asks me to prep five full bowls and two bowls that are half full. When I ask her why the two bowls are to be half full, she responds that they are for the kids. Anyways, I'm left to my task and also thoughts about whether what I am doing aligns with my moral compass. It's humiliating, but from this one thing I started thinking negatively of my workplace.
With the whole thing still not sitting well with me, I run to the computer, where the Point of Sale (POS) system and all the orders are, and see that there are only five lunch specials on the order. It turns out that the two small miso soups had been requested by the customer, and as far as I'm aware, the waitress hadn't charged her for it.
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, maybe there's something profound like, "Even the slightest doubt can ruin a perfect track record," or even, "Assuming isn't good for you dude," but I don't know. Take what you will from this little anecdote. To me I discovered how much impact and change can be caused by an assumption.
Don't stop (not that you can)
I've been looking back at my posts (to get ready for my Student-Led Presentation, which is tomorrow!) and I have to say, there's not a whole lot keeping me from razing everything down to the floor. There's a lot of embarrassing content, but hey, it was me who wrote it.
In a serious light though, I think that one goal that I need to become a better and stronger person is to be able to fully embrace the more cringey parts of my past. Sometimes I try to write posts with the intention to make it as cringe-proof as possible, but maybe that's not what I'm supposed to do.
Maybe it's just some wonderfully beautiful way of living life. Maybe it's about the struggle, and maybe when I feel embarrassed about other posts, it's a good thing because I feel motivated to one up myself. So yeah, don't stop doing what you're doing. Quite possibly you're already doing that, and I'm just the weak one. Embrace as much of yourself as you can, take it, and own it.
Maybe I'm just dumb and this all has no meaning to you.
Thank you for reading.
In a serious light though, I think that one goal that I need to become a better and stronger person is to be able to fully embrace the more cringey parts of my past. Sometimes I try to write posts with the intention to make it as cringe-proof as possible, but maybe that's not what I'm supposed to do.
Maybe it's just some wonderfully beautiful way of living life. Maybe it's about the struggle, and maybe when I feel embarrassed about other posts, it's a good thing because I feel motivated to one up myself. So yeah, don't stop doing what you're doing. Quite possibly you're already doing that, and I'm just the weak one. Embrace as much of yourself as you can, take it, and own it.
Maybe I'm just dumb and this all has no meaning to you.
Thank you for reading.
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