Manila Sky

There is so much going on in our subconscious that we’ll never comprehend.

I was cleaning out my file cabinet today, throwing away burned CDs and emptying out manila folders to be reused (save a tree!). I estimated I was tossing about 20 discs – and then I counted. Exactly 20. (That’s not the point – only anecdotal). Then I had about that many manila folders I’d emptied out, and I was erasing their labels, since I always write them in pencil. Once I got to sorting them according to tab position, a strange thing occurred to me. 

Usually when I start a project, I try to grab a folder that seems to be the minority of the three tab positions to choose from, so it can be easily found among the other projects in my current “irons in the fire” box. What I realized among these past projects (and some were only potential clients), was that the ones occupying the tabs on the right were great clients/projects that went well and I enjoyed. The centered tabs were so-so projects and/or so-so clients that I wasn’t in love with or it didn’t go smoothly for some reason. The far-left tabs were for projects that never came to fruition. oooOOOOOooooo…

~ by mw on August 10, 2008.