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Because, as they say, when God shuts a door he opens a window…but opening that window is pointless if all I’m going to do is stand there staring at that closed door all damned day. If I want my life to be something more, lamenting the fact that it’s not something more isn’t going to change anything. I have to get the fuck out there and Do.
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I tell this cautionary tale because it highlights a problem that I’m becoming increasingly aware of in single American society. Poor young ladies and gents who have been, for better or worse (oftentimes worse), conditioned by past relationships. We’re talking more than just the typical hang-ups and jadedness that comes from experience with relationships gone ary. No – we’re talking life altering, id-warping changes in personality and how one perceives reality and the people around them.
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Did I ever mention that the adage, “If it ain’t one thing, it’s something else” will be the title of my future autobiography? Because it seems to apply more to my life than anything else.
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I hugged myself as I walked down the street. I even lost myself in my haze of self-pity and shed a few tears on the bus. As I walked the final few blocks home, I felt like I was in one of those early 2000’s teen dramas – you know where the beautiful heroine has just been forced to eat a bit of humble pie and she’s walking down the street, dejected and alone, maybe there’s a little Michelle Branch playing in the background. I thought there was nothing I wanted to do more than lie in bed, cry my eyes out, and go to work the next day secure in the belief that I was meant to be alone and pitiable.
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So, is it ok to be friends with your coworkers? Has that been figured out yet? Because I know it’s a debate – with some people saying that it’s good to make friends wherever you can find them, and others insisting that you leave work at work. And I suppose the latter makes sense. I [...]
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