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your life is not hard

11 Oct 2010

Someone sent me this collection of pictures from the pacific theatre of WWII.

On a morning when I’m in the midst of several days back-log of work while being inundated with clients calling about hacked servers, it’s a good reminder that I really have no good excuse to be that stressed out.

I also think it’s funny that while I’m thoroughly vexed trying to take pictures with a Argus C3, lamenting how hard it is at lunch on a weekday while eating a burrito, these guys were doing it in the middle of the jungle while being shot at. Remember that next time you think you’re hot shit because you got a new DSLR.

Comments

Travis Roberts — October 11, 2010 at 16:35 · reply

By this logic, no one is ever allowed to complain. Sure, they had it worse that we do, but I’m sure there have been many examples of people who’ve had it far worse than even those soldiers.

Somebody is always in a worse situation than you are. While I’m not a fan of constant complaining, I think it’s ok to whine every now and then just to get it off your chest.

cwage — October 11, 2010 at 16:36 · reply

Whatever you say, complainer!

Chris Patti — October 12, 2010 at 14:43 · reply

I don’t think Chris’s point here was that no-one should EVER complain, but that most of us lead very cushy lives, and that the things we give ourselves ulcers about are, in the grand scheme, with a healthy dab of perspective, really not that big a deal.

The “Your life is not hard” example from WWII that I always think about is the Rangers who supported the main beach invasion, scaling the cliff walks so they could flank the beach.

Can you imagine having to fall *TO YOUR DEATH* and to not be able to make a sound, because doing so would give away your position and compromise the entire mission?

That, my friends, is hard. The trivialities most of us in the tech world deal with day to day are not :)

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