But at the time, I went in there with an attitude of, 'What do you want me to do?' I was trying to please, instead of being myself".
I think about how much easier it's become for you to simply say, "Help, please" instead of throwing a frustrated fit for the language you cannot find.
According to the Harvard College Library's own description, Widener's humanities and social sciences collections include Again alone among the "megalibraries", only Widener allows patrons the "long-treasured privilege" of entering the stacks to browse as they please, instead of requesting books through library staff.
So please, instead of wasting your time and money on garbage like A Good Day to Die Hard, do yourself a favor and just rewatch the original so you can marvel at what a truly wonderful movie it is and how well it holds up after all these years, while trying your best to forget that the last three Die Hard sequels, especially A Good Day to Die Hard, ever happened.
For example, say, "I would like a salad, please," instead of "I want the salad".
I've fantasised a version of som tam, with crumbled, crisped haggis instead of dried shrimp (yes, please); instead, we get two hefty discs of the fried pudding, refugees from a full Scottish, dusted with chilli and served with a dod of salad and a puddle of chutney; it's slapped on the plate like an insult, too.
I wanted more, another plate of fesenjan, please — instead: into the winter woods we ran after this new world that knew nothing of what we hid on our tongues — other words for dusk, revolution, and snow.
We are in this world for one short period of time, is it not more important that I spend that time pleasing me instead of pleasing them?
"Falsely claiming VAT that is not due is illegal, so we are pleased that instead of this film flop going straight to DVD, these small-screen z-listers could go straight to jail," said John Pointing, HMRC's assistant director of criminal investigation, following their conviction in 2013.
When you start aiming to please yourself instead of aiming to please your boss or to compete with someone else, the company inevitably sits up and takes notice.
