500 Days Lesson #4: For Officemates

Disclaimer: The following are just views and opinion of the blogger but does not necessarily mean she had experienced or she is experiencing the scenes described. Furthermore, any resemblance in any real-life-scenarios was not intended.

We spend an average of 9 hours a day (not including day-offs) in the office. If you're still a student then you'd have it in school. But let's concentrate on the office. After all that's the setting from the movie 500 Days of Summer.

Tom had been working in a greeting-card-making company for 3 years now. We could pretty much say that his life had been built on routines and routine of course is equivalent to boredom. His work-experience though started picking-up a new kind of rhythm when he met this newbie, Summer. That of course is the first day of his 500 days experience with Summer.

In our daily office life, you could either be Tom or you could be Summer. That's actually good for the office. At least people have something to talk about in between breaks to alleviate the feeling of boredom. That is if the entire office know. If the entire office know, it's both a good and a bad thing. Good in such a way that your office-mates will be the one who'll make a way and will even conspire for both of you to be in some way be in contact. Now that would be convenient especially if you're playing Tom's role.

But it's more of a bad thing cause with all the teasing that's happening, there's always the big possibility that both will develop aloofness from each other's company. Not only that, when all else fail, the entire office might feel guilty and have pity and that's the last thing you'd want from them: pity.

But it's actually nice to work with somebody you're attracted with around. Just have to make sure though you'd consider him/her an inspiration and not a distraction. It makes the 11 seconds elevator ride worth-while when you chance to share that elevator with him. It makes the coffee break worth taking knowing he's taking his too. And when you happen to accidentally look at his way and he was looking too and you shared that silent exchange of smile, it makes the night better.

Yah, it's a good feeling. It helps make the everyday office drudgery go away.