Sunday, January 08, 2006

Being open in a religious environment

Wondering what I do for a living? I have a job where I meet with people 1 on 1 and help them with different issues. It's so paranoid of me that I don't want to say what I do because the internet world is so humongous and so what are the chances of someone I know coming across this blog?

But, though that might be true, if it were to happen, and they figured out who I am, it would totally defeat the purpose. I'd prefer to be a little mysterious than end up not getting out of the blog what I want to get out of it.

Anyway, so I work with people. One of the offices in which I work, the clients are mostly extremely religious. That is where I am right now. And today is quite a quiet day so I am able to write here. But I must say that just sitting in a room which I know caters to very religious people makes it difficult for me to easily spill my guts. There are just so many more rules in the religious life. I know it depends what religion we're talking about. But in this one it's definitely true. I definitely find many pluses in this. First and formost, no office is more pleasant to work in than this one. The workers and the clients are so much more... I don't know if I'd call it refined. But maybe more aware.

Forget trying to figure out exactly what it is. The bottom line is that they are nicer to me. And guess what. Not everyone is nice to me. I know, shocker. As you can already tell, I'm one of the nicest people you know. But sometimes people aren't so nice.

What in the world is my point in all of this?

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