Well things are working out and slowly things are calming down since this situation that came up. I talked to a friend here and we were talking on the phone ironically he is facing the same things within family. And at the age of 40 he is graduating and is down about that this summer he will not be working as civil engineer.
We talked as tonight we were going to go out for a coffee for a bit and he said that he has to go back to the library and do more studying and that he is really down with all that has come with the economy right now. As well as his family has went through some of the same things as my own and he said all one can do is just carry on. I think he is right.
However for myself I had one meeting again today and I don't keep my hopes up all that high and at the same time I am realizing that family is family and one just has to go out things that are back to the norm which they were prior to this last week. Once in a while life throws you a curve ball, but I think it's human to know that there are times that will be as such - or I have come to realize it again.
So onward we go...one often thinks they have had a hard time but how often there is someone right around the corner that is feeling the same in a different way – yet we keep on going with what is of importance to ourselves.
Continuing to move forward is the key. I may not know the exact point of my destination, but I've learned to stick to the path and continue trodding on.
ReplyDeleteCal you got that right!
ReplyDeleteAnd am picking back up my spirits...once in a while things happen.
But I am not the only one, as this friend was down and he asked me how I was and how ironic we both were going through some of the same family situations. But we both understand to move on.
So true. We never know what is around that bend for ourselves - maybe more distressing or maybe a ray of sunshine - and we never know what others are going through, maybe even more disheartening than our own troubles.
ReplyDeleteBut, if we learn to examine ourselves during our hard times - when we have been thrown one of those curve balls - as well as when we are 'on top of the world' we will find there is always something to learn and something to be gained wherever our path takes us, or whichever path we may choose to follow. Sometimes it is but a perspective and a change in perspective can often change our whole day, sometimes it can change our whole life.
On this side of some of the most difficult decisions I've had to make in my life, I can look back and say I am truly glad of the choices I made, however hard they were, for I am a better person for it, my life has been enriched and my memories are enriched.
As you yourself wrote, we are the directors of our own lives. It's your story, ... just "keep on going with what is of importance" to you.
Wise words and yeah I am doing just that...
ReplyDeleteI did not see this coming but it came and slowly I am getting back my own foundation with it all.
The one thing most of all is that now the weather is here and that does give way to many things although believe it or not we may have a trickle of the "s...", tomorrow.
onwards and upwards!
ReplyDeleteYeppers...
ReplyDeleteIt's hard to do that sometimes... to move onwards! I know, I've been dealing with a situation and trying to do just that for a year now. Sometimes if feels so impossible!
ReplyDeleteActually.. what you're going through.. is just that.. life! lol. We can only take it moment by moment.. and pull from experience of the past.. to get us through this day!
ReplyDeleteGreat photo above. Sometimes it helps to talk about what is happening in our lives with someone who is nonjudgmental and just there for us, rather than trying to tell us what we "should" be doing or feeling. There are always two sides to a situation, but if we are venting, it helps a lot if the other person just listens rather than judging us. Have a great day, Jack.
ReplyDeleteYour photo is really beautiful! I'm struggling a bit right now with economy and self esteem too - I've been trying to go back to work since January, I thought it would be really easy and would be hired right away... 3 months later and not 1 single bite, it's hard to keep my head up sometimes. However, day by day I remind myself that today is a new day filled with new possibilities, and try to keep on that positive road. Not always easy.. but I try!! :-)
ReplyDeleteI moved here and the economy was fine and now it's something of much different so I am out there with my resume and I am sure things will come.
ReplyDeleteI find that it was very simple and then now I am merging back into the stream and regardless - I worked with the air ports, and I am not moving again - so there will be an out come but today I went and shopping and I am now preparing for another set of meetings and there will be something that takes come about - so although all these things came up - I am moving in my own direction with it all and today I decided that after shopping that I was going to just take some self time. Thanks regarding the photo.
So true Lyn....but at the same time I think that prior to all this venting - I had a old friend and then sick father as well as I will make mention that I have a mentally ill sister and before I was really in my element and today as believe it or not we has a small amount of snow mind you it never stayed.
ReplyDeleteI do have that friend offline that you mention of she is a good friend of the families and has been for some twenty years. I visit with her every Thursday but she was tired today as we all got some cold weather out of nowhere. So I am just taking that self time today...
"self time" is very good. At least the snow melted and you know that spring is really on it's way, the winter is almost past. We had a strong cold front come across a couple days ago with high winds, rain hail, and a few tornados. Getting us ready for hurricane season, I guess.
ReplyDeleteThe one thing I find so interesting with older Canadians is that they say "it's cold but at least we don't get the tornadoes and hurricanes"....:)
ReplyDeleteYes, there are times in our lives that we just don't like, and we want to get in the customer service line and say, ' Here...take it back...I don't want it. ' But we can't. So we just handle it, and do it the best we can. Those ' self ' days are a much needed breather.
ReplyDeleteA wise lady from Ohio...
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