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tug of war.

I don't like talking to our company's higher management. Mainly because I'm not the type of person who actively point out some issues or give pointers on things that needed improvement or just simply being kiss-ass. I work because I can, because I need this job. I would likely spare the drama part to those who have the will to communicate properly . I believe the management have all the senses to take cues from movements within the company specially as obvious as chronic employee resignations. So when our line manager asked if I could have a talk to our CEO, I'm almost pretty sure I could have declined at that very moment. As expected, nobody stood up to take the challenge. For some reason, my manager saw me and almost helplessly tossed me up despite disagreeing to the whole idea. I entered the CEO's office yesterday with a whole lot of reservations. After a few lame hi's and hello's, we're down to business. Along the conversation, he asked me what a

when the going gets tough

Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years Finds and shall find me unafraid. It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.        - William Ernest Henley, Invictus I don't know about you but if I had to read aloud those last two lines, I hear my voice booming. It's that powerful. The fact that we all go through pain however the circumstances, made these words more meaningful.We all go through different shapes and sizes of problems, we've had the best, we've had our worst. People may stop by to comfort but at the four corners of our own self, we'