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Sisyphean Burdens. We don't have term limits, SPG, because as a group we suffer from the opposite issues: unwillingness to care and to follow-through. I'm not currently officially on the board, but the Board president is a non-starter. So, to keep within legal compliance rules, I pick up the slack because I know the rules and it's gotta get done or worse problems sprout.
We've completed all the votes to conduct all business online. That includes the most frequent Board and Annual Meetings. Meaning, I completed the proposal and wrangled it through owner approvals.
Hats. Thanks for the tales of lost hats. While researching a replacer, many reviewers mentioned losing theirs. 18,000 hats are lost a year at Disneyland. OR, maybe hats hear about Disneyland and simply leave without saying goodbye.
My tendency is I get a really nice item the first round. Then when I accidentally damage or lose it, the next round I drop down the price scale. Why pay all that money when I can't seem to keep hold of it? This happened after I lost both of my wonderful folding caps from Sunday Afternoon. $20 a piece. Marked down. Replacements were under $5. Lost those next. Replacements still around $5. Learning to buy them 2 at a time. They're cheap, have unknown branding on them, and harder to lose for some perverse reason.
Found this Zen attitude on Reddit:
I know this feel. I have irrational attachments to hats. Like a little kid and his teddy bear. It's like a security thing? For me it's beanies, or "ski caps" as old people call them. I'll have a beanie that I wear everyday for months or even years. It's probably kind of gross.
Eventually, something happens, and it goes missing. It's just inevitable. I'll retrace my steps all day and a lot of the time I'll find it - laying on random street corner where it fell or just on some random chair in a class room. But sometimes it never shows up and I'll just get really sad for a few days like, "Nothing will ever be the same anymore." It's ridiculous, I know.
So, I've just learned to accept that is the way of hats. They come and go. If you let yourself get too attached you set yourself up for devastation. Learn to distance yourself from hats, and material things in general. You'll be happier and more stable over all.
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