Tunnel Vision

As I was walking up the stairs at work the other day, one of the guys who has been at my company for ~20 years made the comment that "the world was coming down around us."

He was referring to the chaos around the office. We are re-organizing everyone's cubicles. It's supposed to be a productivity enhancement. I'm not so sure, but...eh, whatever. There's construction going on all over the place and it's a mess.

The point is that the world is NOT coming down. Yet, he makes a comment that it is. Look, there's soooo much more than what's going on in our little 3,000 employee campus. Believe me, there are. We have Genentech, ImClone, Pfizer, etc. trying to create cancer-fighting drugs. There's a huge turnaround project in Iraq that has a long, long way to go. We might actually be starting to see the end of our oil supply sometime in the next 100 years.

Why do people get caught up in the notion that everything going on in their life is the world? People seem to think that the CEO of our sector of the company is some god. People wouldn't even recognize him in a supermarket.

Sometimes, there's just a bigger picture out there, people...