In last year's penultimate episode of The Office, Jim responds to criticism from his boss about past performance by fulling investing himself in his upcoming sales pitch. He never worked so diligently on a sale and despite his client's initial resistance to switching paper companies, Jim successfully landed the account at episode's end. Jim is awesome. Jim has legions of adoring fans...both male and female...who would marry him at the drop of a hat. Any hat. And I don't want to be like Jim.
In a separate episode (I believe it is Office Olympics from Season Two), Pam reveals that she is extremely excited about the day because Jim is actually engaged and into things at work (the Olympics). She says that it is a rare pleasure to see Jim enthused about anything and that he does a fantastic job whenever he is legitimately interested in the activity. I want to be interested in things. I want to care about what I am doing. I don't want to be like Jim.
I want my competitive nature to carry over to something other than the occasional intramural or pickup game. I want people to realize that I care. And what I really wanted right now was to elaborate on this. But I have spent the past forty minutes starting at my wall, ceiling, or pillow and I feel like an ice cube someone left out on the counter. Just slowly melting away.
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i agree
"I feel like an ice cube someone left out on the counter. Just slowly melting away."
i like this phrase. not that you feel it--that makes me hurt for you--but the way you wrote it.
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