The Hardest Test to Pass

The hardest test to pass is not taking oneself so seriously. The best way to know whether you do this is to look at how many times in the past week that you have been able to laugh at yourself. It is harder to do than it sounds.

I just sent out an email as a job application to a company and forgot to change the company's name in the body of the introduction email; Two or three lines of stock that I wrote to save time when sending my resume out. So I sent company B a cover letter addressed to Company A. It made me wonder how many times companies receive this kind of error and what emotion is felt when they see it. For a split second, I was actually embarrassed at the error.

Then I just started laughing hysterically at how I was embarrassed for even a split second at such a minute error. Do I look stupid to this company? Sure, but what does that really matter? I quickly found my simple error to be darkly comedic. At least I was able to pass the test this time, at least, for once.