Just a thought for the day -
Over the past (6) months, I've been dealing with prostate cancer (and the exhaustive amount of tests, doc visits, etc.), diagnosed with 75% hearing loss in one ear and 50% in the other, a ridiculous amount of work to schedule and the employee drama that accompanies. I found myself getting less and less tolerant of other people... pissed at the doctor for making me wait on EVERYTHING, pissed at customers for unreasonable schedule requirements, and mostly just blaming everyone else for my inability to effectively get these issues resolved.
This being said, I came to a realization about a week ago...all of the people that I have been so pissed at (from the doctors to the people holding up traffic on the I-75 parking lot) are NOT NPC's. For those of you that aren't familiar with that phrase, it means NON PLAYER CHARACTER, i.e., in a video game an NPC is a character in the game that you have no control over, they are merely there to make the game more realistic for the player, just background.
I realized that my issues are only important to me and my family, everyone else has their own issues to deal with. I guess I need to start focusing less on my self and more on what I can do to help others deal with their 'stuff', even if it is just listening to them complain.
Over the past (6) months, I've been dealing with prostate cancer (and the exhaustive amount of tests, doc visits, etc.), diagnosed with 75% hearing loss in one ear and 50% in the other, a ridiculous amount of work to schedule and the employee drama that accompanies. I found myself getting less and less tolerant of other people... pissed at the doctor for making me wait on EVERYTHING, pissed at customers for unreasonable schedule requirements, and mostly just blaming everyone else for my inability to effectively get these issues resolved.
This being said, I came to a realization about a week ago...all of the people that I have been so pissed at (from the doctors to the people holding up traffic on the I-75 parking lot) are NOT NPC's. For those of you that aren't familiar with that phrase, it means NON PLAYER CHARACTER, i.e., in a video game an NPC is a character in the game that you have no control over, they are merely there to make the game more realistic for the player, just background.
I realized that my issues are only important to me and my family, everyone else has their own issues to deal with. I guess I need to start focusing less on my self and more on what I can do to help others deal with their 'stuff', even if it is just listening to them complain.
