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Doing things you don't want to do?
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Alchemilla wrote: »What a shame you felt that way about her baptism. Presumably she was voluntarily celebrating her faith that day?
I wont go into it but I am not sure she was voluntarily celebrating her faith, no. There is the distinct possibility she was going along for an easy life within her current domestic situation. She would not attend any ceremony I was a part of had I a different faith and so I see nothing wrong with keeping away from hers.0 -
I'm of an age now where I don't bother going to things if I don't want to. I don't go to leaving dos, I've bowed out of Christmas lunches at work and in 8 years in my last job I managed not to go to the annual awards ceremony once :T
There's something wonderful about a night in in the comfort of your own home when you *should* be doing something you didn't want to do in the first place, it's just so much nicer than a night in with no other options
Make £25 a day in April £0/£750 (March £584, February £602, January £883.66)
December £361.54, November £322.28, October £288.52, September £374.30, August £223.95, July £71.45, June £251.22, May£119.33, April £236.24, March £106.74, Feb £40.99, Jan £98.54) Total for 2017 - £2,495.100 -
There's something wonderful about a night in in the comfort of your own home when you *should* be doing something you didn't want to do in the first place, it's just so much nicer than a night in with no other options
Naughty naugty... but you are SO right.
In my job I am expected to socialise in the evenings with suppliers on occassion. In the last year I've grown a pair and said no, or left as soon as I could. In fact, just this weekI have turned down two invitations. It delicious and feels so decadent. My poor boss will never understand this though as he will go to the opening of an evelope if there was free booze on offer. :rotfl:Man plans and God laughs...Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry. But by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry and die, it introduces the idea that if we try to understand each other, we may even become friends.0 -
If she was not a willing participant then clearly that is a different issue. For myself if my friends want to do something within a faith I don't share I will go along with a smile so as not to detract from their happiness.I wont go into it but I am not sure she was voluntarily celebrating her faith, no. There is the distinct possibility she was going along for an easy life within her current domestic situation. She would not attend any ceremony I was a part of had I a different faith and so I see nothing wrong with keeping away from hers.
On the topic of work socials...I am guilty of pretty much always crying off. Maybe that makes me a poor team member but I'm not convinced of the team building potential of lukewarm food in mediocre curry houses...0
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