To the future

I had a weird sensation this morning. I had just completed my second meeting with the unemployment office and was walking towards my home. In the distance, I saw the building where I had spent the last two years of my working life, a place where largely I had had a positive experience while working there, from the professional experience gained and the lovely new friends that I had made thanks to the environment.

Now however I was looking at a building that I no longer wanted to see the interior of. It now represents that past, and the past should not be relived. Also, since leaving that particular workplace, it is clear that my professional future, if it is to be happy, must not be in such an environment. How odd it is to prefer to be for now unemployed, rather than work and be just "existing."

The task now is to secure a happier professional career.....this "break" is a window of opportunity that I must be determined not to waste. It brings to mind how necessary it is for us all in life to stop.....take stock of the situation we find ourselves in and ask if we are happy......if we are on the right path.....if change is needed or not. Most of us can simply soldier on in automatic pilot mode, sometimes on a path which does not suit and/or a path which makes us unhappy, all while not actually realising it. Sometimes what can appear to be negative (for me in this case looses my job), could instead be a blessing in disguise to a happier future.