Hello World,
I started this blog when I first lost my job – I thought it
would be exciting and an adventure and mainly give me a reason to get up every
morning. I lost track of something and now I am actually finding myself again.
When I started this blog, it was a little place for me to
sound off, share some ideas and thoughts and generally just get my thoughts
out. As I days rolled by I began to look
forward to writing something for my blog, but then I noticed that no one else
really had noticed my blog and I wondered why am I actually doing this if no
one cares! So I just decided to stop!
BUT when I stopped I got myself in to a little rut of
depression, self loathing, laziness and generally crappy moods. I have returned recently from my favourite
holiday of all – the Big Apple and I realised that I needed to get the hell out
of my funk. When I was there I was
listening to the stories of some of those that survived Sandy – many losing
memories and homes. What struck me most
was the attitude of the people in NYC – the resilience in the face of
adversity. One moment has stuck with me
more than anything else.
One night I was standing outside my hotel and I was speaking
with the door man when a guy and his dog walked passed. He regularly walked past the hotel each evening
and they both started talking about how the hurricane had affected them. The dog walker said that each evening he
stopped by the hotel to look in the window at the news as he had no power in
his building. The window was his saviour
letting him know what was going on further afield in NYC. I asked him how long he had been without
power – a few days he said. “Everything
in my freezer started to defrost – so I gave it to other residents in my
building who weren’t so lucky with food” His building has gas stoves so they
could cook easily. He didn’t really know
the other people in his building but couldn’t let his food go to waste and see
others hungry. He spoke about how he
carried his little dog “bo” up and down 14 flights of stairs for his daily
walk. How the dog became a little
superstar in the local bank where they allowed people to just sit there and
charge their cell phones. He spoke about the great management team in the building
and how they stopped by each day to check on every one. They brought water from the pool on the roof
to each apartment so people could “flush” their toilets. (pool on the roof – some posh apartment
building! )Notice something about this story? This guy didn’t moan or complain
once about the situation he was in. He
wasn’t moping about; he was getting on with his life as best he could during
the worst storm to hit NYC.
This one conversation between the doorman, the dog walker
and myself has struck such a chord in me that it has helped me get out of my
funk! It has made me say come on, get on
with things and look towards to the positive.
When I was in NYC I bought Bethenny Frankels book “ A Place
of Yes” I have only read the first chapter but this quote has stood out for me “
A place of yes is about taking responsibility for moving forward, even if you
have to climb over a mountain of obstacles. You are in charge, nobody else”.
As I said above, at the start this was a little place for me
to come in to, share, talk and chat even if it was to myself. Now, I realise I need to find that part again
and not focus on who is reading and why people aren’t.
So here it is – my journey through the crap little hand of
life that I have been dealt at the moment – Unemployment. I am not the only person in this country or
in the world that is unemployed at the moment and hopefully some of my little
posts or ideas/thoughts will mean something to someone if they stumble across
my blog.
In the meantime if you do decide to read this blog, please
let me know by either leaving a comment or following my on twitter @mynextendeavour.
Let restart this adventure together.
S
Great blog! xo.
ReplyDeleteMegan
www.forallthingslovelymr.blogspot.com