Thalonius Govender's autobiography

vs one of scarcity

I consider love to be a renewable resource. What does it say about us. The things we do. They can all be sourced back to our first priority. Our families. Recognize it when you receive love, love is sustained more easily when acknowledged. My problem has always been how quickly I fall in love with people. Not sure if I'm neurodiverse but a feeling that strong is scary. And it really is powerful, it powers every person who breaks their backs to provide.

  During my 4 year tenure as safety superintendent for a load and haul open pit gold mining operation in the country of Mali, West Africa, I am proud of having twice reached the milestone of one million lost time injury free hours. En-route to that achievement the Lost Time Injury(LTIs in the mining industry included fatal events) Frequency rate went from a 4 to a zero. By creating a safety culture in which incidents were reported without fear of reprimand I was able to get a very accurate risk profile of operations. This came at the cost of having the highest incident frequency rate in the organization, minor incidents maintained their frequency during my tenure, I took every minor incident as an opportunity to learn and to encourage open and two way information flow between management and the workforce. By fostering trust, I'm of the belief that this approach reduced the frequency of major incidents. My philosophy was to make no distinction between the incident registe...

I've been donating blood since I was a teenager and found pleasure from the act despite the local discomfort.  I love that quote from the book Tuesdays With Morrie, "taking makes me feel like I'm dying, giving makes me feel like I'm living" As I'm ineligible to donate blood until I've been cancer free for 5 years so I've got a couple thoughts on how to scratch this particular itch. Perhaps I can investigate if it's possible to become a living kidney donor. I think maybe I've realized too late in life that I'm a people person, medicine has always turned me off in the past as having to touch people and their bodily fluids seemed gross My spiritual journey can be summaried as a misantropist coming to have a deep love of humanity, Need to find out if there are any places I can volunteer my skills or perhaps it's not too late to get into nursing or maybe even medicine. I'm thinking God complex lol. but truely I've got such an appreci...