F. Scott Fitzgerald said,


"There are no second acts in American lives."


Most people think he was crazy.















Thursday, August 4, 2011

Life is Hard, Then You Die.

...that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.

Okay...not really. Actually, I have been incredibly fortunate. My parents were awesome, my hometown idyllic, I have life-long friends (truly--from shortly after birth, right Hoop?) and everything was relatively easy. I did what I was supposed to do...graduated from college, found a great guy with a bright future, had the good fortune to be able to to stay home with my two awesome kids, and went back to work at a job that (up until recently) I love.

But life doesn't always go according to plans. Sometimes, $hit happens and you have to steer onto a different course. My peeps in Wayne County would call these "character building opportunities."
I call it "maybe losing my house."

But I also look at it as an opportunity. It's a timely topic: professionals who are without their incredible salaries and who are cast afloat--without the "Greed is Good" lifeboat they had assigned themselves to.
Oh, yes...I see so much potential.

1 comment:

  1. ("Right, Kirb!") There is that swing to the pendulum, and it's in all things; just wish we could keep that swing on the good side! But you're right. If we could just look at those "character building opp'y's without that darned thing called terror. In the meantime, looking very forward to when the swing goes back to the good side for ya. <3

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