The plus side of being unemployed.....for a while.

So fantastic news......I have a job yet again....a new contract for 7 months with the possibility of extension. When that happens.....I will believe it :-).

Now that I am on the verge of being a working person once more.....I am reflecting over the last several months, the ups and the downs and the lessons learned. Some might say how lucky I was......to have had so much time off.....and such people have no concept of what being unemployed can do to one`s psyche.....if you are not careful. It would have been so easy to have an unstructured day, every day. Days where you see nothing but the four walls of your home, days where you go out to a bar and feel guilty as you have not "earned" the right in your mind, of being allowed to go out, spend and enjoy. It is so easy to fall into a trap of being a "non person" whereby you could feel that you are not contributing to the world around you and therefore have lost your place within it.

The above is so easy a trap, were it not for good friends, family and maintaining confidence in oneself that with time, all things change....even the difficult times. My period of reawakening in a way has been one where the lessons of living more simply have been reiterated. The joy that can be taken from a simple moment with a friend, a walk in the park and/or the kind gesture of a stranger. To take a step out of the business world from which I came, and then to look back onto it.....its chaotic and frentic values, where loyalty, honesty and stability can be of short measure......it can make one reassess how to better and more successfully interact within such an environment....upon the upcoming return. To take a simple lesson.....to do your work well.....treat those like you want to be treated, build bridges not walls and to trust none but the few....these will be the simple lessons that I will try to live by with greater conviction once I return to the business world.

There is too much back stabbing, dishonesty, lies and people with masks in our working and social environment. Those who portray one image, only to deny themselves their own truth. Hidden agenda's and holes into negative spiral behavioural patterns.....traps that can lead your life of course, away from the happiness that everyone deserves. To remember the simple lessons in life.....to trust your instincts.....to maintain relations with those that are true and loyal to you, as you are to them......to love and be loved....to believe in your own ability and not let anyone take away your confidence so as to feed their own insecurities. Being unemployed was not such a waste after all. This period, with each passing month....peeled the unnecessary layers of the onion, to reveal the true core of what matters.....and to discard those life masks which instead of protecting only prevent from what is being true to be known.

Here's to the next chapter.........