Encouragement and Did I Really See This?

Introduction

Every so often, stories get a lot of attention on my blog Seven Days In. The "Did I Really See This?" was getting a lot, and because of the mention of the song "Happy", I linked the post that started that off and included my own take on the song as well. It is my favourite Rolling Stones song.

Did I Really See This?

I don't know if it's just age or what, but I often think I see things, then look again and realise it's just a trick of the light and arrangement of shadows or something else. I remember seeing a program about a guy who had seen a ghost at work, and when he looked into it (he was a scientist), he actually replicated and showed that it was some device that caused air oscillations at a certain frequency that caused the "ghost" to appear. A couple of months back, I saw this "flying saucer as I walked out of my front door. It was a cloud formation, and a couple of seconds later, it was gone. However, there are a lot of people who would say that this WAS a flying saucer, and I suppose it could have been, but the probability to me is that it was just an unusual cloud formation.

The thing is that we should always question things and demand proof, even if we have to get that proof ourselves. Although we can assume that some things are true because we trust the framework that helps reinforce our belief. I believe that my keyboard and wires are working because I can see the words appearing in front of me on the screen. That reminds me I had a dream that I got a computer last night, but it had a CRT screen, which just got dredged up from my mind because of the analogy I was using.

So my lost contact lens has not appeared, although my left eye is a bit irritated, but is that because I have two contact lenses in there, or is it just psychosomatic? I don't know, but I will keep you posted.

So next in the artists who have covered The Rolling Stones' "Happy" is Nils Lofgren, and while my favourite Nils Lofgren song might be "No Mercy", I've gone for "Secrets In The Street", a cheesy eighties video with a great sequencer intro and outro used as a backdrop to an excellent song with some brilliant guitar lines.

Have a great Wednesday

Encouragement

One of the great things in life is when people say what you are doing is good, that they enjoy it, that it makes things better, and that does give you a lift and makes you want to do more. In a work situation, this encourages teamwork and working together. Outside of work, it makes you want to interact more and work with and help others. It can bring your life to another level.

You get the opposite, people looking to find faults, trip people up and cause trouble and mischief, the sort of people who are only satisfied when they and others are miserable. It's not enough to succeed, somebody else must fail.

Part of my job has always been to spot faults and errors and to fix them, the fix rather than blame culture is so much more positive. Also encouraging others gets the best out of them.

Social interaction also helps in a work situation because if you talk about non-work things, it becomes easier to share ideas and deal with problems.

I wrote this post because someone gave me some encouragement, it was unexpected, but it was appreciated.

Also yesterday I saw someone almost resorting to violence because of a small mistake in a shop, and the person behind the counter was being very helpful but the customer was having none of it and ended up being ejected, it would have taken five minutes to sort his situation but he wanted blood.

Anyway, I thought I'd try and find a cover of one of my favourite all-time songs "Happy" by The Rolling Stones, and listened to covers by Nils Lofgren, The Pointer Sisters and Spirit but for my mood, all fall short of the Stones doing that song. However, my next three posts will include songs by each of those bands.

Anyway, it's Tuesday, and it's still dark but dry so have a brilliant day.

And my unprofessional attempt