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After the last few months, I kind of think at this point God or whoever is just messing with me so I’m now laughing about it (the title of this post is a wink at that absurdity), but the ordering of life events goes something like:
Lose close maternal grandparent in August, speak at funeral
Destabilizing political violence and regular violence (national and local)
Travel - get Covid
Start new job (exciting)
Travel - get cold
New job ramp up (which is admittedly fun)
Broad FUD around world economy reordering based on instability the technology sector (mine)
Travel - get flu
<now we’re here>
I’m gassed. I’m pretty sure I’ve had every illness that I could get at this point, so at least we should be set on that front. It was already pretty miserable as of October. I guess the other stuff could get worse, but hopefully won’t and at least I can be grateful for the work I’m doing, my dog, family and friends. Reorienting on that helps.
Sometimes, if you’re ambitious like I am, it can be easy to stay focused on the end goal. One thing that can be hard to see in the moment is that the thing that helps you get there the best is actually taking a step back and reorienting and getting back to the foundation. I wrote this post over the summer about how breaks are for losers and one of the core parts of that is working as hard on yourself as you do on other things. Couldn’t be more true now.