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Lately I've been thinking about the term down-to-earth. When you're worms-deep in humility, you are not bothered if others grow over you and bask in the sunshine while you remain on the ground. And it doesn't mean you have no ambitions either. Far from it. It just so happens that you have a different role to play in life. While others take root and sprout from the soil, you are busy fertilizing the loam that will nurture all living organisms. It's essential work. Without you nothing can reach up and kiss the sky.

 

This is especially true in the workplace setting. In this data-centric age of convenience, promotions are bestowed upon people not necessarily on the basis of merit but on so-called personality, often at the expense of the most deserving. Meanwhile, those who do the hard work, who are worms-deep in humility, get little to no recognition whatsoever. As one person once said, "Success has many fathers, but failure is an orphan."

 

So, being down-to-earth is good, so long as you don't let people nonchalantly step on you. Say to them, "Keep off the grass! I'm busy living."

Edited by Lord Superb
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Uncertainty. You don't exactly know how to describe it, but you know how it feels. It's like a deep tremor in your abdomen, rising slowly, threatening to churn out everything you've eaten in the last six hours. It's like a runaway truck, careening on an empty highway, heading straight into you. It's like a blank piece of paper pretending to be your exams paper. It's the ashes from the contents of a half empty cigarette box, chain smoked through minutes of waiting. And the ashes from what's left of said box, after being handed down an unexpectedly bad message. It's the pink slip in a banana box left by your manager, with a nicely written letter of regrets.

 

Though varied in many forms, uncertainly leaves you nothing but broken.

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