It's been awhile. This space still holds meaning to me, enough to draw me back despite the clear lack of energy and focus towards the day's end.

Work is tiresome, yet invigorating.
It's frustrating, yet endearing.
Work is discouraging, yet gratifying.
It's meaningless, yet fulfilling.
You work for hours on end, yet those hours feel like mere minutes.
You think to yourself how tough this is, but yet you constantly crave for more.
Sometimes you tear out of joy, sometimes you laugh out of frustration.
Some days you just wish you could stay in bed, some days you wish you never had to leave.
Work is a paradox.

That said, I do not hate my job. It has it challenges, but so does every other job. And to be honest, challenges do carry a strange appeal. What's really important now is that I learn - learn well, learn fast.

In keeping with the paradoxical theme...

The Paradoxical Commandments by Dr. Kent M. Keith

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives.
Do good anyway.

If you are successful, you will win false friends and true enemies.
Succeed anyway.

The good you do today will be forgotten tomorrow.
Do good anyway.

Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable.
Be honest and frank anyway.

The biggest men and women with the biggest ideas can be shot down by the smallest men and women with the smallest minds.
Think big anyway.

People favor underdogs but follow only top dogs.
Fight for a few underdogs anyway.

What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight.
Build anyway.

People really need help but may attack you if you do help them.
Help people anyway.

Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth.
Give the world the best you have anyway.