WHAT A DIFFERENCE A DAY CAN MAKE

I have a dear friend.  She is old enough to be my mother and very wise.  I have always been able to take my problems to her.  When I have, she has reminded me of one very clear mantra she lives her life by, "what a difference a day can make!"  Her motto rings true for almost every bad situation I've ever been through.  It may be a day, a week, a month, or a year, but what a difference a small period of time can lend.   I wish people contemplating suicide would understand this concept.

You can be sick as the dickens, and a week later feel great.  You can be lonely and hurt, nursing the wounds of a relationship gone bad, and a year later be engaged to be married.  Or in my case, you can be devastated over a career opportunity, and a month later be accepting an offer for the very job you just got turned down for.  I have seen this concept put to test hundreds of times, and it always rings true.

If you recall in my, THE WORLD IS ON FIRE post, I complained of being out of a job and struggling to find work in a creative field.  Fearful I would have to return back to the trade I had fought to get away from, I was beginning to lose hope in this new career path I'd chosen.  So far, all it has done was lead me to the unemployment line.  But with only three weeks of unemployment compensation left, and the paralyzing fear that I was not going to find a job at all, much less one in my new field, I landed the exact position I had applied and been turned down for in August.  This is nothing shy of a miracle.

On August 22 I wrote, "Right now I stand nervously awaiting a decision that affects my present and my future.  I have done all that I can to influence things in what I hope is a positive way.  The rest is up to God.  Here's to hoping the push, enables a pull in the right direction for me.  Only time will tell."

The decision I was referring to was about a job offer that was likely to determine whether or not I was going to stick with pursuing my passions, or return back to my former line of work.  The news I heard that day was that someone else had been chosen for the position.  But time has told a different story.  The same position re-opened at this company and I was selected :-)

"If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours."- Henry David Thoreau