ok so I have been thrown a curveball. Just when you think things are getting up to speed, just when you think you have gained momentum, boom, you get a curveball and you find yourself telling yourself - just put one foot in front of the other. It's not easy, even when it's inevitable, even when the curveball is really a relief, in fact, you wanted it, you invited it. Okay so I have worked with this guy for a bunch of years. He is my employee. He has advised me that he has been offered another position and he is leaving. This is a basic fact of life. People come and go - especially in business settings. When I think of the law firm I worked at years ago - we used to joke about it being a revolving door. But I am not like that. I am invested. I have a personal investment but I am cool, professional, cool and professional at all costs...but I feel ready to pop. It's not easy - feeling uprooted --- but it makes me realize that my family is where I belong, not a work situation, not an office, not where I make my living, in fact, even in the best of circumstances, even in the best working environment, that is exactly what it is - a working environment, it is where I make a living, not where I live, not where I exist, no, I exist within myself and within the hearts and home of those I love - in my family. I will go within myself and my home to find my strength, to find myself.
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Curve Ball
ok so I have been thrown a curveball. Just when you think things are getting up to speed, just when you think you have gained momentum, boom, you get a curveball and you find yourself telling yourself - just put one foot in front of the other. It's not easy, even when it's inevitable, even when the curveball is really a relief, in fact, you wanted it, you invited it. Okay so I have worked with this guy for a bunch of years. He is my employee. He has advised me that he has been offered another position and he is leaving. This is a basic fact of life. People come and go - especially in business settings. When I think of the law firm I worked at years ago - we used to joke about it being a revolving door. But I am not like that. I am invested. I have a personal investment but I am cool, professional, cool and professional at all costs...but I feel ready to pop. It's not easy - feeling uprooted --- but it makes me realize that my family is where I belong, not a work situation, not an office, not where I make my living, in fact, even in the best of circumstances, even in the best working environment, that is exactly what it is - a working environment, it is where I make a living, not where I live, not where I exist, no, I exist within myself and within the hearts and home of those I love - in my family. I will go within myself and my home to find my strength, to find myself.
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I share your struggle. At once I long for "roots" growing stably into the ground and still to be so free from attachments that I can love with reckless abandon. You always teach me: life changes. I have to be so grounded in my own roots that I am able weather any storm; to know that people, love, homes, jobs we love, will come and go. I will love despite the curve balls. I will love this life with reckless abandon.
Yes, totally, love despite the curve balls...with reckless abandon
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