2017 Weekly Magazine, January 22: "best day, worst day"
Jan 22, 2017 9:43:43 GMT
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Post by jrmugz on Jan 22, 2017 9:43:43 GMT
For this week's 2017 magazine, I was thinking about the City Slicker's part where they said "What was your best day, what was your worst day?"
So, guess if anyone wants to share any thoughts on that, in the spirit of the clip.
And the rules since too obvious/easy, maybe if we don't mention marriages or kids born, since those are usually the obvious/easiest ones for best days.
And if for the worst day, obviously a lot of personal traumatic stuff in peoples' lives, they might not want to share, so no need to get too personal
for that area, etc.
I think one of the best days for me, was the last day of 1992, a Saturday on a New Year's Eve day. I had been through a long struggle of determining if I honestly believed The Catholic Church was from God, etc., and finally I believed God really got through to me, to show me back to The Catholic Church. It was a huge pride-swallowing sacrifice I had to make to convert from my evangelical church I was much involved in; but I remember the big sense of relief I had, that the long struggle was finally over and I finally knew who I was and what I was supposed to do. On the morning of that New Year's Eve day, I met with a very knowledgeable Catholic talk show host for breakfast with the last of my questions about Catholicism, and I knew that if those questions were answered in a satisfying way, that I needed to convert back to Catholicism. He had already answered several of my other questions at prior meetings with him. I remember knowing when I left the breakfast that I was going to go back to my Catholic roots, and on the way driving back the song "The Wall" by Kansas, was playing on the car cassette deck, which is very poignant and dramatic, since it's a song about finally crossing a bridge to a religious belief, and I felt every word of it as it was playing. It was a homecoming not only to who I was, but also relieved some family tensions, etc. that had been lingering, so it was a great thing all around for me. I went to Confession for the first time in years that day, started going back to Mass the following Sunday, and have never looked back since, one wonderful wife and nine kids later, who are all being brought up in the Catholic faith.
Hard to pinpoint a singular worst day for me, maybe back in 2001 after I left a job to take another one, and then after a few months at the new job, they determined I wasn't working out, and I had to scramble for another job that was really hard to find after that. I just remember that period as some feelings of failure and the anxiety of having to find a new job, and that it took a while. Seems like that process has repeated itself a few times since then, but I've learned not to take it hard or personal, just the nature of the IT field, where as long as the accounts are good, the work is secure, but when the accounts close, they have to make cutbacks, etc. I always remember the Genesis song "you're taking it all too hard", when things like that happen now, ha ha.
Anyhow, would be interesting to hear anyone else's best day and worst day reflections, if they want to share.
Jim
So, guess if anyone wants to share any thoughts on that, in the spirit of the clip.
And the rules since too obvious/easy, maybe if we don't mention marriages or kids born, since those are usually the obvious/easiest ones for best days.
And if for the worst day, obviously a lot of personal traumatic stuff in peoples' lives, they might not want to share, so no need to get too personal
for that area, etc.
I think one of the best days for me, was the last day of 1992, a Saturday on a New Year's Eve day. I had been through a long struggle of determining if I honestly believed The Catholic Church was from God, etc., and finally I believed God really got through to me, to show me back to The Catholic Church. It was a huge pride-swallowing sacrifice I had to make to convert from my evangelical church I was much involved in; but I remember the big sense of relief I had, that the long struggle was finally over and I finally knew who I was and what I was supposed to do. On the morning of that New Year's Eve day, I met with a very knowledgeable Catholic talk show host for breakfast with the last of my questions about Catholicism, and I knew that if those questions were answered in a satisfying way, that I needed to convert back to Catholicism. He had already answered several of my other questions at prior meetings with him. I remember knowing when I left the breakfast that I was going to go back to my Catholic roots, and on the way driving back the song "The Wall" by Kansas, was playing on the car cassette deck, which is very poignant and dramatic, since it's a song about finally crossing a bridge to a religious belief, and I felt every word of it as it was playing. It was a homecoming not only to who I was, but also relieved some family tensions, etc. that had been lingering, so it was a great thing all around for me. I went to Confession for the first time in years that day, started going back to Mass the following Sunday, and have never looked back since, one wonderful wife and nine kids later, who are all being brought up in the Catholic faith.
Hard to pinpoint a singular worst day for me, maybe back in 2001 after I left a job to take another one, and then after a few months at the new job, they determined I wasn't working out, and I had to scramble for another job that was really hard to find after that. I just remember that period as some feelings of failure and the anxiety of having to find a new job, and that it took a while. Seems like that process has repeated itself a few times since then, but I've learned not to take it hard or personal, just the nature of the IT field, where as long as the accounts are good, the work is secure, but when the accounts close, they have to make cutbacks, etc. I always remember the Genesis song "you're taking it all too hard", when things like that happen now, ha ha.
Anyhow, would be interesting to hear anyone else's best day and worst day reflections, if they want to share.
Jim