Friday, August 6, 2010

Rolling Luggage, Embodiment of Experience

In one's life time, he probably is going to meet many challenges. In the very start of his career, he couldn't deal with them on his own in the situation of which he would need the suggestions of the senior workers. Some people have a strong belief in themselves. And they like to do things according to their own will regardless of other people's advices. Unfortunately, they often end up with regretting of not listening to the others.
Here, I have a simple suggestion and I'd like to explain it with the help of a story from the 2009 movie "Up in the Air" with the famous Hollywood male star George Clooney starring in. And this suggestion is rather simple, that is, you should prepare a rolling luggage for yourself.
In the movie, Clooney was a very experienced employee who specialized in firing people for different companies. As a result, he had to fly around to different places to meet those people he was going to fire. We could see that he always took a rolling luggage with himself. In his eyes, the world was not difficult which was composed of plane and hotel. Although he lived a unique life, we cannot deny that he indeed had much experience. He was just like fashion bags on sale which thought are sold at a cheaper price compared with those bags of new style, yet they still own the quality of first class.
However, suddenly he found that his career and life were threatened by a fresh worker who was a young girl and had just graduated from college. She invented a kind of computer software which allowed people like Clooney to fire people with computer instead of going to talk to those employees in a distant place. Like many college students, the girl was a little arrogant and over proud of herself. She totally considered that Clooney's going to talk to those who he was going to fire face to face unnecessary. Then, in order to solve this contradiction, Clooney made up his mind to take her on a trip to let her feel his way of working.
One detail is that in the airport, when Clooney found that the new girl brought many personal things with her which, in fact, was completely unnecessary. Moreover, she didn't even get herself a rolling luggage. She needed to pull her luggage with great strength. He then brought her to a shop with fashion bags on sale, including big traveling bags with wheels for luggage. He told her to prepare as few things as much on a trip. I should say even though this was a rather tiny thing, the effect is that things became easier for this new girl. What is this? This is experience.
In your life, you can never predict everything, so next time, prepare yourself a rolling luggage and you will find your life easier.

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