"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - )
Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - )
posted by Michelle at 9:07 AM
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posted by Michelle at 9:07 AM
4 Comments:
There's no glory in the maintenance work but there is also nothing but decay without it.
Maintenance people are some of the most under-valued individuals on the planet and that is very unfortunate given how vital they actually are.
mWhat is interesting to me is that this is reflected in so many levels of our lives. Take relationships - they are so exciting and new at the start when we are building them - yet how many of them suffer and die because we no longer take the time to maintain them - taking them for granted until they are gone?
I think that's because when we "build" we tap into our creativity & that's alway fun, and because we feel a sense of accomplishment with the result.
Whereas maintenance feels like it's never ending & unfortunately mundane.
Maybe "we" need to think differently about maintaining what we've built.
God Bless the maintenance people.
i think that this means if you set goals, they won't just happen. You have to make them happen.
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