Through the Bridges of Life

By Jerry L.. Fitzgerald

The book Through the Bridges of Life is informative and has ideas and experiences that you and the author have gone through and only a few have gone through. Enjoyment of people, places, and strange things are inside. Grab a cup of coffee, settle down in your favorite chair, and prepare to enjoy the book with a smile.

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Stratton Press
• Release date: Jun 18, 2018
• ISBN: 9781643450629

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Contents

Introduction to Through the Bridges of Life

A Place to Work

Aptitude vs. Attitude

Beauty

Beginnings of the States

Changes

Decisions

Dentist

Dictionary

Do We Live in the Right Country?

Dream

Employee Appreciation Day

Friends

Grammar School

Handwriting

In Five Years

Lador

Nice

Plan?

Questions

Quotes from My Friends for You to Enjoy

Red High-Top Sneakers

Sorry

The Game—Twenty Years Ago

Think

Third

This Today

This Today Two

Time

Tree

Wait

Wedding in July

What Do You Think?

Who Do You Invite?

Answers for Beginnings of the States

Rainy Days and Fridays

Rabbit Farm

Connection

How

And Other

A Cheerful Place

Do Not Argue with a Woman

Change of Mind

Close yet So Far Away

Color

Deal with It

Employee Day

Equilibrium

Explain the Arts

Name of Faith

Here We Go Again

Higher Learning

Hot Dog Caper

If We Can Only

In the Mail

It May Never Be

Jenna

Just Plugging Along

Just Thinking

Life Fill Up

Mind Beauty

My Snowflake

Sounds of Beauty

Is There Anything You Would Like to Say?

Scheduling

Snipe Hunting

The Beach

The Door Opened

Two Lovers Lost at Sea

Thinking

When Are You Supposed to Die?

Wonder Why?

Introduction to Through the Bridges of Life

What is a bridge? Most people know that a bridge

is used to go from one place to another in a short time.

There are different bridges other than a straight one.

There is an S-bridge, which was used for horses and buggies.

There the road was straight, but the water stream was at an angle.

A covered bridge was to keep the bridge open

and unfrozen and to make it last for a long time.

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Then there is a Y-bridge, which is used today for common traffic.

The bridge has a straight line, and halfway it separates,

and you have to go left or right on different streets.

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Bridge over Troubled Water was a popular song

in the ’70s, and how many times have you crossed

that channel?

In life, how many bridges must you cross to the other side,

and how many times must you decide on whether

you want to challenge successful goals?

So if you are in the crossroad of life

and see a bridge you have not seen before, stop and think.

Maybe this book can guide you through the rough ahead.

Good luck and enjoy.

A Place to Work

Can’t we all just get along? Obviously not! We are just a part of a herd, though we see ourselves as American working icons, fenced in, gazing at the clock, in the insanity of the modern corporate workplace.

Jack Dougherty, founder of Dougherty Dialectic and coauthor of Most Likely to Succeed at Work, said, Once you get ten people together, they fall into a pattern of behavior.

For example, Dougherty said every office has a brownnoser. This is someone who sucks up to his or her boss for personal reasons. It’s the common type in an office. This is a person who is starved for attention.

List of common office annoyers (please note this is not comprehensive):

1. Loud talkers—They are physically incapable of whispering, or they think everyone is interested. Forget wearing earplugs because the loud talkers will try harder to be heard.

2. Angry man or woman—Gets ticked off by almost anything. When there’s no problem, he gets mad because everyone else is not.

3. One-uppers—Did you just get back from Florida? Well, he just got back from Las Vegas. Your airplane ticket was $225; his was $199. If you lost ten pounds, he lost twelve.

4. Super parents—Be careful. Even if you can’t take one more story about Johnny’s home run, keep quiet. Don’t criticize super parents, or you will sound like you’re criticizing their kids. Besides, the kids wish their super parents would shut up too.

5. The experts (a.k.a. Cliff Clavin from Cheers)—They are especially dangerous because any subject can set them off. But the really annoying part is that every so often, they actually come in handy.

6. Charity junkies (a.k.a. Mother Teresa)—those who are pledging for peace, are walking for whales, are saving the seals, etc.

7. Pack rats—They have piles of papers on and around their desks, boxes on the floor, ever-growing stacks, and mail hanging off their desks. Their space is the most likely to harbor a small rodent village.

8. Moles—These people skulk around the office, hover over your desk while you type, and are silently in the middle of every conversation. They trade information. They know who’s dating whom and who had too much to drink at the office party.

9. The downers—Bad luck and hard times visit us all, but what about the downers who always have a tough time? They’ll tell you about their cousin’s husband who has some incurable disease.

10. The uppers—How can smiling, happy people be so utterly annoying—so perky and bubbly that you want to put curses on them? If they have anything zippy on their desks, it’s way too late to help them.

Aptitude vs. Attitude

Aptitude—natural ability or skill;