Monday morning. Strange waking up and not having a job to go to, so I decided to carry on with my usual routine of babysitting, drinking coffee and dog walking, then settling down to work. I never used to drink coffee, only green tea. Which is not strictly true, as I always had one cup of coffee of a Sunday morning. I started drinking it on a daily basis shortly after Dominic was born. I needed the morning kickstart and still do.
I wallowed a bit yesterday — unusually for me. I was expecting a bit of a post-redundancy bump after my initial sense of weightlessness last week. I wallowed in how unfair it was to have been put in this position after all the hard work I’d put into the company I worked for. But what has fairness in life ever got to do with anything? And that was yesterday, and yesterday is history. Today the sun is shining and I’m looking forward to a brighter future. I’m back to being optimistic and a touch scared — which is healthy as it will keep me motivated. My dog, a lanky, black, five-year-old labrador called Leo, is enjoying my unemployment. He now gets taken for longer walks every morning: along the river and up through the woods, instead of the quick dash around the park he used to get before I went to work. He now thinks every day’s the weekend. Not that I know what he thinks of course, I’m just guessing. It’s interesting that ‘redundancy’, comes from Latin ‘redundare’, which means ’surge’.
October 6, 2008...10:48 am
Surging into the future
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