The best way out is always through

One point office dares…

1) Run one lap around the office at top speed. 2) Ignore the first five people who say ‘good morning’ to you. 3) Phone someone in the office you barely know, leave your name and say, “Just called to say I can’t talk right now. Bye.” 4) To signal the end of a conversation, clamp your hands over your ears and grimace. 5) When someone hands you a piece of paper, finger it, and whisper huskily, “Mmmmmmm, that feels soooooo good!”. 6) Leave your zip open for one hour. If anyone points it out, say, “Sorry, I really prefer it this way”. 7) Walk sideways to the photocopier. While riding in a lift, gasp dramatically every time the doors open. 9) Every time someone asks you to do something, ask if they want fries with that.

Three point office dares… 1) Say to your boss, “I like your style” and shoot him with double-barrelled fingers. 2) Babble incoherently at a fellow employee then ask, “Did you get all that, I don’t want to have to repeat it”. 3) Page yourself over the intercom (do not disguise your voice). 4) Kneel in front of the water cooler and drink directly from the nozzle (there must be a ‘non-player’ within sight). 5) Shout random numbers while someone is counting. 6) Put your rubbish bin on your desk and label it “IN.” 7) Put decaf in the coffee maker for 3 weeks. Once everyone has got over his or her caffeine addictions, switch to espresso. Don’t use any punctuation 9) As often as possible, skip rather than walk.

Five point office dares… 1) At the end of a meeting, suggest that, for once, it would be nice to conclude with the singing of the national anthem (extra points if you actually launch into it yourself). 2) Walk into a very busy person’s office and while they watch you with growing irritation, turn the light switch on/off 10 times. 3) For an hour, refer to everyone you speak to as “Bob”. 4) Announce to everyone in a meeting that you “really have to go do a number two”. 5) After every sentence, say ‘Mon’ in a really bad Jamaican accent. As in “the report’s on your desk, Mon”. Keep this up for one hour. 6) While an office mate is out, move their chair into the lift. 7) In a meeting or crowded situation, slap your forehead repeatedly and mutter, “Shut up, all of you just shut up!” At lunchtime, get down on your knees and announce, “As God is my witness, I’ll never go hungry again”. 9) In a colleague’s diary, write in 10am: “See how I look in tights”. 10) Carry your keyboard over to your colleague and ask “You wanna trade?”.

11) Repeat the following conversation 10 times to the same person: “Do you hear that?” “What?” “Never mind, it’s gone now”. 12) Come to work in army fatigues and when asked why, say, “I can’t talk about it”. 13) Posing as a maitre d’, call a colleague and tell him he’s won a lunch for four at a local restaurant. Let him go. 14) Speak with an accent (French, German, Porky Pig etc) during a very important conference call. 15) Find the vacuum and start vacuuming around your desk. 16) Hang a two-foot long piece of toilet roll from the back of your pants and act genuinely surprised when someone points it out. 17) Present meeting attendees with a cup of coffee and biscuit, smash each biscuit with your fist. 18) During the course of a meeting, slowly edge your chair towards the door. 19) Arrange toy figures on the table to represent each meeting attendee, move them according to the movements of their real-life counterparts.

Bonus points! 1) At a meeting, stand up and act indignant. Demand that the boss tell you the ‘real’ reason this meeting has been called. 2) Spill coffee on the conference table. Produce a little paper boat and sail it down the table. 3) Stay behind as everyone else, including the boss, leaves. Thank them for coming. 4) Give a broad wink to someone else at the table. In time, wink at everyone. 5) Sometimes shake your head just a little, as if to indicate that the speaker is slightly crazy and everybody knows it. 6) Bring a hand puppet, preferably an animal. Ask it to clarify difficult points. 7) Complain loudly that your neighbour won’t stop touching you. Demand that the boss make him/her stop doing it. During a meeting, raise your hand and say “Ya know, I’m going to have to disagree with you on that one,” each time a superior speaks. When he/she asks why, flash them a sly grin and a wink, then say, “You’ll see.” 9) Leave an empty pistol holster on your desk, when asked about the location of the gun say “depends, which side are you on?” 10) Look at an email and then run out of office screaming “Oh my god they’ve found me”

Go on I DARE ya!!!!

And secret thoughts were said aloud
We watched the faces in the clouds
Until the clouds had blown away

And were we ever somewhere else
You know, it’s hard to say

And I never saw blue like that before
Across the sky
Around the world
You’ve given me all you have and more
And no one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now
Oh, I, I never saw blue like that

I can’t believe a month ago
I was alone, I didn’t know you
I hadn’t seen or heard you’re name
And even now, I’m so amazed
It’s like a dream, It’s like a rainbow, it’s like the rain

And somethings are the way they are
And words just can’t explain

Cause I never saw blue like that before
Across the sky
Around the world
You’ve given me all you have and more
And no one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now
Oh, I, I never saw blue like that before

And it feels like now,
And it feels always,
And it feels like coming home

I never saw blue like that before
Across the sky
Around the world
You’ve given me all you have and more
And no one else has ever shown me how
To see the world the way I see it now
Oh, I, I never saw blue like that before

Oh, I, I never saw blue like that

I've been searching a long time
For someone exactly like you
I've been travelling all around the world
Waiting for you to come through.
Someone like you makes it
All worth while

Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. Someone exactly
Like you. 

I've been travellin' a hard road
Lookin' for someone exactly like you
I've been carryin' my heavy load
Waiting for the light to come
Shining through.

Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. Someone exactly
Like you. 

I've been doin' some soul searching
To find out where you're at
I've been up and down the highway
In all kinds of foreign lands

Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied.

I've been all around the world
Marching to the beat of a different
Drum.
But just lately I have
Realised
The best is yet to come.

Someone like you makes it
All worth while
Someone like you keeps
Me satisfied. Someone exactly
Like you.

One Art

The art of losing isn’t hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster. Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. Then practice losing farther, losing faster: places, and names, and where it was you meant to travel. None of these will bring disaster. I lost my mother’s watch. And look! my last, or next-to-last, of three loved houses went. The art of losing isn’t hard to master. I lost two cities, lovely ones. And, vaster, some realms I owned, two rivers, a continent. I miss them, but it wasn’t a disaster. —Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture I love) I shan’t have lied. It’s evident the art of losing’s not too hard to master though it may look like (Write it!) like disaster.

by Elizabeth Bishop

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One day I decided to quit…
            I quit my job, my relationship, my spirituality… I wanted to quit my life. I went to the woods to have one last talk with God. ”God”, I said. “Can you give me one good reason not to quit?”  His answer surprised me…  ”Look around”, He said. “Do you see the fern and the bamboo?”  ”Yes”, I replied.  ”When I planted the fern and the bamboo seeds, I took very good care of them. I gave them light. I gave them water. The fern quickly grew from the earth. Its brilliant green covered the floor.  Yet nothing came from the bamboo seed.  But I did not quit on the bamboo.  In the second year the Fern grew more vibrant and plentiful.   And again, nothing came from the bamboo seed.  But I did not quit on the bamboo. He said.  ”In the third year, there was still nothing from the bamboo seed.  But I would not quit.  In the fourth year, again, there was nothing from the bamboo seed.  ”I would not quit.” He said.  ”Then in the fifth year a tiny sprout emerged from the earth. Compared to the fern it was seemingly small and insignificant…  But just 6 months later the bamboo rose to over 100 feet tall.  It had spent the five years growing roots.  Those roots made it strong and gave it what it needed to survive. I would not give any of my creations a challenge it could not handle.” He said to me. “Did you know, my child, that all this time you have been struggling, you have actually been growing roots” ”I would not quit on the bamboo. I will never quit on you.” ”Don’t compare yourself to others.” He said. ”The bamboo had a different purpose than the fern. Yet, they both make the forest beautiful.” “Your time will come”, God said to me. “You will rise high!” ”How high should I rise?” I asked.  ”How high will the bamboo rise?” He asked in return. ”As high as it can?” I questioned. ”Yes.” He said, “Give me glory by rising as high as you can.” I left the forest and bring back this story.  I hope these words can help you see that God will never give up on you.  He will never give up on you. Never regret a day in your life.       Good days give you happiness;       Bad days give you experiences;       Both are essential to life.       Keep going….