For the second time in under a year, I am leaving a steady job. I am writing this as an office party stirs behind me, its occasion distinct from and coincidental to the fact that today is my last day. In a way, the bittersweet experience of the revelry behind me underscores the difference in circumstances between the way I am entering unemployment today and the way I greeted it back in February.
In February, I followed an epiphany. It told me to ignore common reason and leave a job I hated for the great unknown, with the experience of that very unknown designed to guide me to the next revelation. As a result, the experience was exciting, invigorating. Today, leaving after having lost my job through circumstances outside of my control, I greet the unknown as a different kind of mystery.
But mysteries, if lived, reveal much to the prepared and receptive mind. My wish tonight is that my mind remains wide open for the good that is yet to come.
In February, I followed an epiphany. It told me to ignore common reason and leave a job I hated for the great unknown, with the experience of that very unknown designed to guide me to the next revelation. As a result, the experience was exciting, invigorating. Today, leaving after having lost my job through circumstances outside of my control, I greet the unknown as a different kind of mystery.
But mysteries, if lived, reveal much to the prepared and receptive mind. My wish tonight is that my mind remains wide open for the good that is yet to come.
