Saturday, July 20, 2019
This is my first morning waking up without a job, AND it feels amazing!!!
Yesterday, my last day at work, was a wild and crazy ride. I woke up, got pretty, then headed to work. One of my old supervisors texted me a song from YouTube: Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra. (I’ll include the link below.) Man! That song is such a message of positivity and it absolutely gave me some interstellar validation! Of course I had that overwhelming deep breathe crying moment where you lose your shit, and then you laugh because it’s just life.
I got to work, and manifested the day I wanted. A day filled with support and lots of love from the great people I had worked with over the past 11 years. I had to do a small bit of work, but all in all, the people made it a special day. I didn’t leave the job because I hated the people, quite the contrary...I love the people, I just couldn’t deal with the career anymore. For the most part, the people are the reason I stayed longer than I should have.
There was that final moment when I sat in front of my boss and handed over the work phone, login token, and access card, then I knew it was done. I had finished that leg of the journey.
So, I came home, reflected, took a nap, and then had a quiet, calm steak dinner with a friend. Our server was very inspirational, a younger person, spry to life! She shared her life plan and her dreams. I couldn’t help but encourage her to never let anything get in the way of her dreams. We shared, “I’m proud of yous” because I told her about my life change. It was magical, and the margarita helped. 😎
Lastly, I ate cake in bed, because that’s what I wanted to do with my life. It’s all up to me now!
I have a special message that I wanted to include in this blog: humans are no exception in the animal kingdom. Just because we have the ability to think and work excessively hard doesn’t mean we actually need to or should. The sad reality is that we have been convinced, somewhere along the line, that it’s perfectly acceptable for humans to work 8-12 hour shifts, for the purpose of survival. Take a hard look at all the other animals of the earth...can any other animals work that hard constantly, day after day? Have you ever looked at a human that works 40 hours a week? They look completely exhausted...burned out. At what point is that not actually okay anymore? Is a constant state of exhaustion what humans are supposed to be now?? Just a bunch of tired people with body aches, stress overload, anxieties, and high blood pressure, just to survive? I know this has been happening for generations, but is the working human experience killing us faster than natural progression?
I don’t have an answer, but I’ve been there. And I’ve seen others there. I think there’s a problem, and I don’t know how to actually identify it, but it definitely looks like a problem.
I’m going to go enjoy my human experience for a while, I’ll be back later.