The world ain’t all sunshine and rainbows. It’s a very mean and nasty place and I don’t care how tough you are it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain’t about how hard ya hit. It’s about how hard you can get it and keep moving forward. How much you can take and keep moving forward. That’s how winning is done! Now if you know what you’re worth then go out and get what you’re worth.
I like this quote, it’s taken from the rather impressive Rocky movie from 2006. I wanted to write about how life can change and yet at the same time we can extract the positives and not let life get to us. To say that this week has been an eventful one for me would be a massive understatement! To go into following working all of last weekend only to be told the next day that your job is no longer their is a bit of a hard pill to swallow. No doubt the next few days were a bit of a blur.
When the worst things happen in life we can take one of two options, we can either curl up in a ball and let life kick us into submission or we can keep moving forward and taking those punches on the chin we can move on. So I dusted myself down, started to bombard other competitors of my previous employer and after the first few days I have two interviews next week.
It was the continual and helpful advice of friends that kept me in a positive frame of mind, there are some former work colleagues that are nice and I will keep in touch with, their are others that have shown their true colours being two faced people. I would always like to talk in high regard to those that I have respect for but the ones I thought I could trust, I have no respect for them at all.
I’ve never lost a job before so no doubt it hurt but after seeing the things and events that had affected my friends lives recently I knew that I was still lucky. Some have not only lost jobs but relatives, friends, irreplaceable possessions and that makes my scenario not seem so bad. I will be concentrating hard on these next two interviews in order to get my life back on track. No doubt this time next year I will have forgotten all about my former employees.
Like the quote above nothing hits harder than life, but it is all about just keeping optimistic and moving forward. Nothing else will do for me. Life is one unique opportunity for us to explore and enjoy. I don’t believe in life after death nor in reincarnation so what we have is what we make it.
Even in the darkest of days, there is always hope.
