I quit my job.
It's funny how you can love a brand, a store, a group of co-workers, and hate the management who governs you - management who wants to keep you around because you are of a rare few who is getting a degree and who could have an "awesome career" with their company - the same management who belittles the people who work under them and passes off the tasks their don't want to do to their employees just because they can.
Notice how quiet it's been around the blog lately? That, I blame, on being stretched thin. Between preparing for graduation, working full time, and interning at the Alzheimer's Association, I barely had time for me - or for my husband.
I think we often get sucked into the idea that life/our career/job/etc. is as good as it's going to get.
It's not.
The past few months I've spent a lot of time thinking about the future saying things like, "when I graduate, I'll finally be able to do this ___." and "when I have more time I/we can go here ___ or do this ___ like we've been wanting to!"
While attending the wake and funeral of one of Matt's friends earlier this month, the frailty of life hit me. Questions like "why wait?" and "what do I really want out of life?" and "how can I make our life and the lives of others better?" and "how can I be better? a better person? a better wife?" Life is really too short to wait until the opportune time to change or to do the things we are passionate about. Why waste time doing things that don't make us happy, that don't fulfill and enrich our lives as they should?
I realize I am young. And I know that many people will not agree with the life that Matt and I have chosen for ourselves. I know that so many people have different opinions about how our lives should be and when we should do things. But I also have come to realize that I've been living my life for others for too long.
So I'll pursue my dreams because life is too short not to pursue your dreams, and it is much to short to spend time doing something you don't absolutely love.
I quit my job, but I am not a quitter.
