It really so depends on how willing you are to let go of your fears and losses and embrace your joy in the moment. Even if it's simply looking out at this beautiful sunny day and being thankful for your eyes. You learn, through the worst of times that in itself is so much.
When your lifetime career or job has been stripped away from you
your entire world as you knew it becomes a complete 360. EVERYTHING changes. You wake up, you don't have to be anywhere. Your co-workers are no longer in your life on a daily basis. You have nothing to get dressed for and of course the obvious, no paycheck, no health insurance. No sense of purpose. It's a feeling of sheer fear and can be compared to being dropped in the middle of the world somewhere all by yourself.
It's been 11 months since my radio position was eliminated after being with the same station for nearly 16 years. It's better today than it was when it first happened, but the feeling of being not a part of anything is the hardest for me. Even though my mind knows that is not true, I have to fight with those thoughts on a daily basis.
Used to be, there would be another job waiting. Not so today.
So, how do you live in the best of times, when the worse of times has hit you personally? That my friends, is what I've been teaching myself to do day by day, minute by minute since the day the music died (for me!) I was a radio personality for 28 years and loved every minute of it. But that's not what this is about.
It's about starting over completely at 55 years old and where do I go from here?
Every sentence I write has been a song. Do you ever notice that? When I'm finished, I think I'll count the number of songs I've written myself in this blog.
I grew up loving music and it's in my brain no matter what I'm thinking. Music helped shape who I am today.
My husband just walked in. Hmmmmmmm I'm not sure that's a song yet! Powerless over the interruption.....be back later.
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