I am excited to be featured today on one of my favorite little websites, Secret Society of List Addicts. Man, I love making lists. And then marking stuff off them.
My list, 6 Ways to get through a tough time, was borne of, you guessed it, a tough time in my life. Which is in fact, ongoing. Which brings me to this post, which I’ve been mulling for the last 2 weeks.
See, the follow-up to my list which was written while I was miserably but gainfully employed is that I got fired from my non-profit job, for a mixture of personal, political and undisclosed reasons. This was rather unjust, I felt, because I had- as far as I could- cleared the air and moved forward in good faith. All this happened at the end of March, about a week after I submitted the post for the queue at Secret Society. And so, Item 4: Forgive and Be Forgiven? is still very much in process.
Now, I have taken my own advice and sought the counsel of my mentors (Item 2) and the comfort of my friends (item 1), but that doesn’t make forgiving any easier. My father, bless his heart, even sent me some sermons on CD on forgiveness, but I’m sure that listening to them isn’t going to magically make me not hate my former bosses guts. The situation was so messy, so personal, and had been causing me tension for about 6 months, that I’m not really sure that 2 weeks is enough time to sort all that out, much less let it all go. Therein lies the adventure, I suppose- in sorting though the emotional wreckage, and finding a way to move forward.