I really liked this post and wanted to share it with you. I have been one such outsider in the workplace and it was so painful that it was a big reason that I became self-employed for the last 25 years of my life. I like to believe that the gifts that I got from such experiences (besides self-employment itself) include helping me to become far more inclusive and compassionate toward those who are lonely, in pain, shy, and not fitting in.
Russ
Todays Daily Prompt: You have the power to enact a single law. What would it be?
Many years ago I was part of one of those team building exercises. The exercise on this day was as follows; the group of people all had to hold hands and make a circle, two people were left out of the hand holding circle because they had to try and wiggle their way into the circle. The hand holders were instructed not to let these two people into the circle at all.
It was terrible to see how upset and almost hysterical the two “outsiders” got when they couldn’t get through into the group. One or two of the hand holding group disobeyed the instruction of not letting them in (take a guess who?) and let go of the others hand so as to let them in. I’m not too sure what the object…
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Love it! Thanks, Russ! 🙂
Thank you for letting me know you enjoyed it, Ela.
Russ
This is a wonderful post, Russ. Thx for sharing it… Have a great day, filled with hugs. 🙂
A day filled with hugs would be great indeed. Thank you, Lori. May you have the same.
Russ
Thanks so much for the reblog, Russ…
It was a real pleasure to do so, my friend.
Russ
Great reblog, thanks Russ
Thank you, Ute.