Grateful
/A year ago today I was laid off from a company that I loved. After years of dedication, in a matter of minutes, I was let go. In a single moment, I lost my job, my routine, my identity. I remember how the floor seemed to collapse underneath me and I became a zombie, sort of there, but not really. I could see people talking, but not hear anything.
In the year since then, I have re-learned how to live. Bit by bit. I have learned -- among a million hard-won lessons -- that I am not my job. My heart is who I am and my heart sees and feels and hurts and guides.
Today I am so grateful to be here, to be on this side of that chasm of pain, to feel the sense that life is a whole, layered richness of being -- much clearer on what I am looking for in this lifetime, happy, healthy, gratefully here here here here here here.
I am so grateful to be here today and to know what I know now.
And I am so grateful to you.
Thank you for being here, for bearing witness to my evolution as I bear witness to yours. We are all doing the best we can with what we've got, stumbling forward, sometimes falling backwards, beautifully caught in a web of pure humanity that holds us together when we are falling apart ... and that carries us forward into new days and new years.
You are the glowing center of your own life.
Its true.
You are glowing -- unique and beautiful.
Maybe that sounds good.