Daily Life
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Return to Work
I have always been a company man and upheld the best interest of the company. After my injury and return to work despite informing HR staff of every passing stage I was going through I realised it was just going in one ear and out the other as they “knew what was best for me” I was to return to a section that was in a building I could not get to due to staircases (wheelchairs don’t climb steps) so I was to return to the front counter of Lost Property. I actually felt like I was lost property. I could not see myself in this or the other department…
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TIME WORTH $86,400
Imagine there is a bank that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day. Every evening the bank deletes whatever balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every dollar, of course! Each of us has such a bank. Its name is TIME. Every morning it credits you with 86,400 seconds. Every night it writes off. You have lost whatever of this that you have failed to invest to a good purpose. It carries over no balance. It allows no overdraft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains…
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Human Rights Commission National Press Club
Australian Human Rights Commission Professor Gillian Triggs, President Address to the National Press Club, Canberra I am delighted to have this opportunity to speak at the National Press Club here in Canberra about a topic that is of vital importance to journalists, freedom of speech and the unprecedented very public debate termed the ‘freedom wars’. In doing so, I acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which we stand and pay respect to the elders past and present. As journalists, freedom of expression is crucial to your ability to scrutinise the political process. You are more aware than most that this freedom is a fragile flower to be nurtured.…
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A Story to Live By
There was a blind girl who hated herself because she was blind. She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He was always there for her. She told her boyfriend, ‘If I could only see the world, I will marry you.’ One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her. When the bandages came off, she was able to see everything, including her boyfriend. He asked her, “Now that you can see the world, will you marry me?” The girl looked at her boyfriend and saw that he was blind. The sight of his closed eyelids shocked her. She hadn’t expected that. The thought of looking at them the…
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Life is a Gift
Before you complain about the taste of your food – Think of someone who has nothing to eat. Today before you complain about life – Think of someone who died too early on this earth. Before you complain about your children – Think of someone who desires children but they’re barren. Before you argue about your dirty house someone didn’t clean or sweep – Think of the people who are living in the streets. Before whining about the distance you drive Think of someone who walks the same distance with their feet. And when you are tired and complain about your job – Think of the unemployed, the disabled, and…
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PTSD – Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
I am asked if I suffer PTSD or depression. When my injury first happened I was just to overwhelmed with what was going on to dwell over what happened to me. I was a very health person and very rarely ever visited a doctor and to be laid out on a bed in the most pain I have ever been in my life while a bunch of Doctors poke and prod me was more devastating than the injury. The slightest movement of even the bed sheet was enough to send me of the deep end. All I wanted to do was to get out of the hospital. Within 5 days…
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Daily Life
Each morning I wake I think to myself how lucky I am to live another day. Once you have mortality thrown in your face you suddenly appreciate how good it is just to be alive . My daily life: I wake to a body that does not want to bend and pain racing through my body. To me this is the norm and it’s just a matter of forcing yourself mentally and physically. Hot water of a good shower and it’s back to bed and get myself dressed, into my chair. Then put my shower chair away, medications, coffee, feed the dog and collect all my digital media devices .…
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My First Post
My very first post!!! People decide emotionally then justify intellectually. Very few people make decisions by first assessing the facts and then coming to a decision. Most people decide from the gut and then find reasons why that was a good decision. Therefore, when you’re seeking a decision, only present facts that will elicit an emotional reaction but which then hold up to scrutiny.
