A few months ago, I changed positions within my company. It was a good move, and I have to admit that I like what I'm doing and the people I work with. One of the benefits of my new job is that I get to work out of my home office when I'm not traveling. This is great for convenience, comfort, and the occasional load of laundry, but lousy for inter-work socializing.
Which gets me to my thoughts. Today, I attended a holiday get-together at the office. The people attending I've known from 1 to 10 years. Many of them, I watched start their first day at the company or have known for my entire career. Yet today, I felt like I was on the outside looking in. The information they were delivering in the meeting portion had nothing to do with my current job. I was surprised at the number of new initiatives developed in a short span of months. Most of all, I wasn't an insider anymore to the personal lives and jokes.
It surprised me. It even made me a little sad.
I realized that we each become part of the culture we are immersed in at that time. Lemmings within our own microcosm and part of the greater macrocosm of the companies we work for. And for a moment, I missed the lemming I used to be.
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