Help me make my boss cry!
June 1, 2011 12:45 PM Subscribe
I need a mushy reading/video for the team meeting on my last day at work. Up to five minutes long.
Snowflake-y details
- I am leaving voluntarily to go back to school, studying plants and fungi
- I am the department administrative assistant
- Team's job is to improve service in healthcare
- Team is six women
- I have the option of projecting a video from the internet
- Mushy readings are de rigeur, the last two were a poem about mothers for Mother's Day and Oh, the Places You'll Go
- Boss cries at emotional moments at work, it's not a Big Deal nor will she feel uncomfortable about it.
- Bonus points if the reading has a social justice message
Snowflake-y details
- I am leaving voluntarily to go back to school, studying plants and fungi
- I am the department administrative assistant
- Team's job is to improve service in healthcare
- Team is six women
- I have the option of projecting a video from the internet
- Mushy readings are de rigeur, the last two were a poem about mothers for Mother's Day and Oh, the Places You'll Go
- Boss cries at emotional moments at work, it's not a Big Deal nor will she feel uncomfortable about it.
- Bonus points if the reading has a social justice message
Response by poster: Thanks for the answer!
After sleeping on it, I remembered my favorite Rilke passage, which feels right:
...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
posted by momus_window at 2:58 PM on June 2, 2011
After sleeping on it, I remembered my favorite Rilke passage, which feels right:
...I would like to beg you dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don't search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
posted by momus_window at 2:58 PM on June 2, 2011
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posted by faineant at 7:48 PM on June 1, 2011