BY KLAUS DÖRING
IS IT NORMAL to have bad work days? Bad days are rampant.
Question: How often do you have a bad day at work?
The perfect workplace does not exist and the occasional bad day at work is normal and unavoidable.
But when you have too many bad days it has a strong negative effect on your career, your health and your private life.
Well, one of my expatriate friends here in the Philippines admired the “Five Tibetans Monks”. I mean – not the personalities. Every morning, my friend does these exercises entitled “Five Tibetans Monks”. Since my friend started with that, he hasn’t become sick any more. He also felt mentally balanced. I can’t guarantee it. He kept on swearing it to me.
Another (German) friend, meanwhile, 85 years “young” can’t enjoy his breakfast without first jogging for an hour or even more starting at 5 a.m. If he’s not able to practice it, he becomes moody, intolerable, aggressive and frustrated. Bad days!
Others have to swim three times a day. Good for those who have a swimming pool or live near a beach or sea shore.
I love a glass of red wine (don’t get me wrong: I said ONE glass!), a good book (whatever that means for you, my dear reader!), and relaxing (old!) classical music. So, each one of us is looking for his or her special ways of being comfortable.
But some of our dear fellow creatures can’t really get some peace. They heave a sigh and utter a groan all day long! The Five Tibetans Monks have been blurred. Jogging is unhealthy; green tea is putting out and forces ill-feeling; swimming in a pool supports logical ring worms! Heaven forbid!
I’m sure my red wine is never digestible and instead reading a good book while listening to relaxing music weighs heavily upon our minds.
I travelled a lot. I stayed in more than 70 countries. I experienced in some Western countries that travel agencies recommended trips to Mexico for “Leos” or to Turkey for “Capricorns”. I went to both countries and didn’t feel anything wrong or bad. I estimated roughly, which dramatic mis-judgments, accidents, and sickness outbreaks or losses have happened in my life during days followed by full moon periods.
Which day is today? I always write most of my columns for this daily and my websites on Saturdays. It’s really a great day. Joking apart: allow me to quote Th. Campell (Lochiel’s Warning), “Coming events cast their shadows before”. Bad days for most places on this globe and its people right now. “Mourning becomes Electra!” – as E.O. Neill entitled his drama stage play.
But, we should never stop praying for peace!
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