You do feel like you're perpetually on trial".
Otherwise, you're perpetually running up government debt, and eventually there will be a fiscal crisis.
When you are on that circuit, you are perpetually under the illusion that you are hearing from the exciting, fresh people who are about to change history.
Spending your time and energy figuring out how to handle misbehavior is a losing game; you are perpetually living in reaction, which is exhausting and nonproductive.
In states like Michigan, Iowa and Pennsylvania, the working class on whose behalf you're perpetually willing to speak fought back against the party that claimed to represent them.
The Greenbrier also believes in service, real service, the kind in which the staff really seems to care that you're perpetually comfortable, fed and entertained.
You are perpetually startled, not so much by surprising events (these are routine) as by the vague but unmistakable sense that things look different, that something more complicated is happening than the passive act of looking.
Even if you are a high performer at your job, if you are perpetually absent from the office you are missing opportunities to connect with the culture and stay attuned to the political context of your work environment.
You are perpetually exhausted, confused and coated in body fluids, and your notion of an "amazing night" is now one where you are only woken twice between the hours of midnight and 6am.
If you discover that consideration is a key value, but you are perpetually late for meetings, the ritual might be to end the meetings you run five minutes earlier than usual and intentionally show up five minutes early for the meeting that follows.
Otherwise, you're perpetually asking why.
