Live, Work, Live

Setting your priorities will probably be the hardest thing you will have to do in life. Are you looking at further education? Are you looking forward to starting your new job, or getting a stable one? Are you working towards “that” moment in life - where everything right happens because of YOUR hard work?

Or, Are you just waiting to go home?

The “Circle of Life“, on the contrary, has many shapes. It’s never really smooth, it’s not meant to be and nor, I feel, is it possible. I thought everything would be awesome once I got done with college. Get a nice job, move to a different city, travel all sorts of places and so on…

Whereas in reality - I only got one call back from a hundred resumes I sent out. I didn’t get to move to a different city, in fact I had to take a 45 min train ride to get to work {for the job I wanted} and I’ve yet to take a real vacation. That was 2002. Since then I’ve gone pretty much independent.

The thing is if you want to be independent you need to think independent {Thank God for the internet}. I’ve taken advice from family and friends in the past, some of it was good - most of it wasn’t. Don’t get me wrong, the decision lay ultimately with me - I, in no way, blame anybody for anything. But…looking back I just see all the rights and the wrongs as pieces of this immense puzzle. Somehow, they always end up fitting together. No matter what I did everything sort of just fell into place.

That’s when I realized, I need to stop trying to change what I cannot yet see. But I can learn from what I have seen. This, without a doubt, has helped set my priorities straight.

As you can guess by the title of this post that’s exactly what they are {I know they are kind of broad, but defining them is not exactly a priority right now }. I wanted to insert “Vacation” but that would be kind of pushing it - work is important. It is what makes us who we are.

photo credit: ~Twon~