I was sitting in my office, today, listening to people pack up their things on the day they were fired. I have worked at the government, and like many thousands that was a doomed venture from the start, even if we had no way of knowing that upon taking the job... as everyone with less than a year of service was either fired or took a resignation deal like I took. However, the experience dove tails into my recent thoughts of things that people need to remember in this time and about which i wanted to say. So, I'll use it to illustrate some points. So, back to my listening and observation of these individuals' final day. I heard some with the most anger and most sad reactions being the same ones that over the last weeks was heard spouting the most unrealistic hopeful delusions. I'm not anti hope. I'm a hopeful person, but life has taught me to temper that with clear vision. I've also been in relationships where I thought someone cared but was real...