I know this is hard to fathom, but something at work really excited me today!
It’s not hard to guess that this “something” had nothing to do with work…
This “something” was able to lift my spirits, put an extra skip in my step, and encouraged me to look to the future with optimism and hope — and I had simply stumbled upon it, without knowing.
I walked into the opened word processing area, as Julie was collecting dollars from her co-workers. She looked at me and asked, “You want to put a dollar into the Powerball pool?”
“Oh, OH!!! Yeah! I’ll be right back!”
I skipped to my office and pulled out a crisp new dollar bill, skipped back, and handed it over.
“Thank you for asking me to join you guys. How much are we going to win?”
“$171 million, but, now, I guess I have to ask everyone else if they want to join, too.”
As Julie went off asking the rest of the department if they wanted to participate, I started calculating how much I would get, once taxes were taken out and the pot was split.
What seemed like minutes later, the tickets were purchased and copies were handed out. After that, there was nothing left to do but dream about what we were going to do with the money — and we had three days to dream!
Another co-worker commented that she had to put in the dollar, because how stupid would she feel if we won and she wasn’t part of the pool? After all, someone has to win…
Just as she said this, a very adamant voice from around the corner yells out, “No! That’s not true. No one has to win!”
“I guess you didn’t enter the pool.”
“No, I didn’t. Why waste the dollar?!”
I just sat back, thinking that the dollar wasn’t wasted. Even if we didn’t win, this single dollar gave me something fun to think about; it gave my co-workers and me something in common… something to smile about…and something to dream about. It made the day go faster at work.
No… the dollar wasn’t wasted.
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