This article brought great comfort this morning. I’m at a point right now where I can’t remember a time when I’ve been much lower. I just feel…stuck. A rat in a maze trying to get to the cheese at the end but faces a dead end each way I turn. I keep telling myself it’s gotta go up from here. But I’m not sure I’ve found the ladder yet.
But we cannot fully experience, we cannot fully live, until we have examined our lives to the fullest extent. And pain is part of that.
I don’t set out to write the next Harry Potter. Even though I look like him.
I just want to make one person’s day a little bit better.
And I have to believe that I’ll find that first rung soon.
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March 26, 2008 at 7:32 am
Do you know she was FIRED her from her job as a corporate administrative?
She was taking notes at a meeting – and they found doodles and writings on the margins about a young wizard-in-training.
So they fired her *ss.
But, then again – they were paying for secretarial support, not creativity.
That’s probably about the time she hit bottom.
She now has enough money and influence
to buy every one of those managers several times over!
March 26, 2008 at 7:42 am
Oh, and by the way –
Remember my bit for “Sh*t Up Louder”?
The lovely book left at my desk, “Who Moved My Cheese?”…two months before I got canned? (and, after nearly every show…folks told me they’d find that book on their desks too…before being canned).
The cheese did indeed move. To India.
Stop looking for CHEESE.
You need to look for something ELSE.
You are far more flexible than you think you are.
All I can ever advise is to never say “No” to any opportunity.
March 27, 2008 at 7:54 am
Ah – found “Something Else”:
http://www.gracecathedral.org/labyrinth/
“The labyrinth has only one path, so there are no tricks to it and no dead ends. The path winds throughout and becomes a mirror for where we are in our lives.”
There is no cheese involved, and, as Bob Dylan so aptly put it – trying to be a “Suck-cess”.
If you want a dandy, 3D one – Eye of Horus bookstore (near Bob’s Java Hut on Lyndale and Leaning Tower) has one outside the back of their store.
Dead laptops can be sold on ebay for parts. If I had more time to pursue repair, and were more flush, I’d buy it from you. Repair people have to get their “learning” computers *somewhere*.
And am very sorry you lost your cousin. You face a hard weekend. Lost a black-sheep uncle that way…If I’d been older…I would’ve known when to STEP OUTSIDE…to keep balance (or escape?) the hysterics, histrionics and grief.