Posts Tagged by waiting
AJ’s advice – fixations
| July 14, 2012 | Posted by Alaa Jasim under AJ's Advice |
Ah, dear reader, welcome back to another edition of “Alaa’s weekly confessions.” No wait, that’s not right. Advice; I do advice. Everyone has that thing that they’re obsessed with, fixated upon, enthralled by, and so on. Right now I have a massive thing for poultry, as anyone who follows me on Twitter might know. What can I say? Chickens and ducks are just really cool. People’s obsessions can be really annoying (I know this, because I’m really annoying), but we just have to deal with it. What one person finds cool, another person quite possibly does not. Where you are a cat person, someone else is a dog person. Somebody’s obsession is the sort of thing that after a while,… more
AJ’s advice – patience
| May 20, 2012 | Posted by Alaa Jasim under AJ's Advice |
We have all had those days where we hate the world and everything in it, and nothing seems to move fast enough. There are always times when you just want to get something over with so you can just go home and do something more fun. Not nearly enough of us (often, myself included) are patient enough, and a lot of us can be short-tempered and perhaps a little irritable. Being patient – becoming patient – can be pretty important in a world full of people that need help, or that are just generally irritating. Maybe it’s watching that damn painting dry, or waiting for results: patience is a life skill and a virtue, and we could all stand to… more
