The Holtonian

Like sands through the hour glass so are the days spent reading Yahoo articles

I've been thinking lately on the my place in corporate america when all of a sudden it dawned on me the utter depressing fact of Corporate america is that once a person is gone, they're gone. No memorials, no "so in so sat in this cube for ten years," i mean a guy/girl could work their entire lives at a job and once they're gone the only thing to remember their part in that company are the people that worked around them. And unless they some how really touched those people and befriended them, then chances are they'll be forgotten. Its almost the same feeling I get when I walk onto Blackwatch (my dorm hall at covenant). I walk on a hall where only a few souls remember my name, and a few recognize my face. The toilet seat probably remembers the many times I pooped and cleaned it, but it can't talk. The halls can't speak of my playing shirts and skins glo in the dark frisbee, though thats probably a good thing. The gym doesn't remember my amazing exploits on the basketball courts during intramurals... wait I don't either. The library can't speak to the numerous books I checked out and the books can tell anyone that Chris never really read this book though he sited it in his endnotes. My cube won't know when I'm gone, my computer won't know when I'm gone, www.Yahoo.com won't know when I'm gone, no only the people I work beside are there to recount the amazing deeds one man did for his company. My co-workers are the only ones who can recount how I read yahoo article after yahoo article, from the news on the middle east, to the story of the man who stuffed crack in his ear to get through customs. Its rather depressing when you think of how time passes. It really shows me whats important in life, not necessarily the nine hours I'm at work, but rather it emphasizes to me the importance of the hours spent outside of work. The family that I have, the friends, the TV, my computer... my blog, these are the important things... that and frosted mini wheats.