Come What May

Is it just me, or does everyone have some sort of affection to their office after they worked there long enough?

I don’t even talk about connection to your coworkers, because–naturally, you will develop some (good) relationship with them after few years.

You have to, and I guess naturally you will.

That, I think, is some kind of a wonderful feature of human nature God equips us with in order to survive. But that is the topic of another story.

What I mean here is affection to your company as an entity. Like, you are motivated to do well so that your company does well, too. And after some years, the familiarity of your desk, of your department seating arrangements, of the company aisles as you wander around perhaps in the overtime hours, will set some kind of homey feel.

Call it feel of belonging, if you like.

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