Today, in the course of doing an errand, I walked by a place where I
might have worked. It was a year ago when I thought about working there,
and seeing the building brought home how much can happen in a year.
In that year, because I didn't work at that place, I spent 2 months
pondering the differences between unemployed and looking and
freelancing. In that year, I spent five months traveling to Connecticut
for "soap camp," reconnecting with people from my past, and wondering
what the whole experience would mean for my future. In that year, I
interviewed for jobs I didn't get, and "fell into" a job that went from
one day to many. In that year, I went from days structured around
meeting school buses (and some structured around school bus strikes) to
days when it is a challenge just to get home for dinner. In that year, I
went from hours of sometimes glorious, sometimes painful, quiet to
moments of quiet grabbed only in the early mornings.
A lot can happen in a year. I could have ended up working at that
building I passed today. At the time, it was an agonizingly hard decision not to try
to work there. What a very different year it would have been had my decision been different.
Never underestimate the power of each decision you make. They can change your days. And your years.
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