Or do you have plush towels in your linen cupboard that are only for guests, fine gilded china only for Christmas Day, or sparkling crystal wine glasses only for \u2018special occasions\u2019?<\/p>\n
I was hanging out the washing today, and at one point, purposefully bypassing the new plastic heavy set pegs with the coloured stripe, I was tilting on one foot, arm outstretched, trying desperately to reach for an old worn wooden peg, to hang out my pyjama top.\u00a0\u00a0 Because, it\u2019s only a pyjama top.\u00a0\u00a0 I could use the fancy peg for my fancy top.\u00a0\u00a0 And it occurred to me in that moment, how odd our behaviour can be at times.\u00a0\u00a0 Of course perhaps with the best of intentions, but ultimately to our own detriment.\u00a0\u00a0 And, for what exactly?<\/p>\n
Which had me reflecting on those I love who I know, as soon as that alarm goes off in the morning, struggle to swallow the lump of dread in their throats for the day that looms ahead.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve been there.\u00a0\u00a0 We who stare at the ceiling, just staring into the nothing, stretching out the \u2018snooze\u2019 minutes for as long as we possibly can, with worry creased across our morning brows.\u00a0\u00a0 Dragging aching feet across cold tiles to prepare ourselves for another day.\u00a0\u00a0 Another day.\u00a0\u00a0 Staring at our weathered faces in the mirror and wondering how we let it get like this?\u00a0\u00a0 Promising ourselves, that soon, soon we would bring out the \u2018big guns.\u2019\u00a0\u00a0 Soon we would find another job, another path that would make this knotting of anxiety go away.\u00a0\u00a0 But not today.\u00a0\u00a0 Today we just need to get through today.\u00a0\u00a0 And then tomorrow we just need to get through tomorrow.\u00a0\u00a0 And we save our job searching for another day.\u00a0\u00a0 A better day.\u00a0\u00a0 When we\u2019re in a better frame of mind.\u00a0\u00a0 A day that, in my experience, seems never to come for some.\u00a0\u00a0 We talk ourselves out of action, and lull ourselves back into the familiar warmth of complacency.<\/p>\n
You know, I recall a wonderful colleague of mine from a little way back.\u00a0\u00a0 An intelligent woman, a warm woman and someone who I took cues from and admired.\u00a0\u00a0 And one day she told me something that really shocked me.\u00a0\u00a0 She told me that she hated her job so much that every morning (that is every. single. morning.) on her way to work, she pulled her car over and threw up.\u00a0\u00a0 Every morning.<\/p>\n
Can you relate?\u00a0\u00a0 Well, I don\u2019t know what we are waiting for.\u00a0\u00a0 Why we are putting ourselves through the torment of desperate unhappiness in our jobs?<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.<\/p>\n
Why are we saving our CVs for a \u2018special occasion\u2019 that rarely seems to arise?\u00a0\u00a0 We\u2019re so busy making a living that we forget to make a life.<\/p>\n
Have you seen the latest SEEK advertisement on TV?\u00a0\u00a0 SEEK claim that we only spend 13 years of our actual life at work.\u00a0\u00a0 Although that might be stretched over a 40 year career, the time compounded amounts to only 13 years.<\/p>\n
And 13 years just happens to be unlucky for some.\u00a0\u00a0 Don\u2019t let that someone be you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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