The more I try and read what others are saying on the world wide inter­web, the more I real­ize that there are a lot of people out there who are a hell of a lot smarter then myself. Jarkko Laine is one of those people. While look­ing around his site, I found what is deemed a “pop­u­lar arti­cle“. The title alone got me to read it (Never Work Over­time Again) and after read­ing it I can hon­estly say that he nailed it per­fectly. Noth­ing could be done to improve the state­ments made therein.

This is going to sound like an odd arti­cle, as I have yet to write any­thing on this site remotely reflec­tive or con­tem­pla­tive. I don’t know why, actu­ally but that’s just how it’s turned out. In any case, I was talk­ing to Theresa on Sunday when the topic of my friend Norm moving to Japan. She com­mented on how she was jeal­ous of those who have “free lives” or those who can just “up and do it.” She also made the com­ment that not all of them suc­ceed, to which I responded with “those are the ones that lack the strength of char­ac­ter to see it out.”