Perception Is Everything
- JP | #Intangibl3
- Jun 26, 2017
- 4 min read
It's Monday; another Monday. Rolling over groggily you bang on your nightstand, feeling for the thing that so terribly ripped you from your peaceful slumber. Your hand moves around, knocking over your water bottle, hitting your glasses to the floor. Finally you find it - that thing that is evil incarnate - your blaring smart phone. You hate that alarm, but you know it's effective in waking you up. No matter how rude the awakening, you can't afford to be late - not on Monday.
You silence the alarm and rise from that safe haven that is your slumber land. You begin to move at a slow, uneven pace toward the rest room to relieve yourself of the night's buildup of urine, stifling a yawn as your feet shuffle across the carpet of your bedroom floor. You flush the toilet and turn to see the bags under your eyes, the disheveled bed-head and the bloodshot eyes. You got drunk last night. After all, it was the weekend, and you didn't want to think about this very Monday morning.
As quickly as possible you brush your teeth, take a shower and get dressed. You want to make sure you have time to stop and grab the usual Monday morning donuts and coffee. You know that the doughnuts and coffee, with all the added sugars, aren't good for your health - but it's Monday. Arriving at work with your bag of sweet, fat-and-carb-laden breakfast doughnuts and coffee, you couldn't be more relieved to finally reach your desk. Had it always been that difficult to climb the two flights of stairs to your office? These days it seems like you can't do much of anything without running out of breath. You know that it is partly due to the every increasing rotundity of your gut, but you're not willing to give up your Monday breakfast! Besides, the rest of the week you eat sort-of healthy, right?
Just as you're about to take the first bite of your third (and final, of course) doughnut, your see the department head walking in your direction. You swiftly place the doughnut gently back in its bag and frantically search for something to use to wipe the glaze from your fingers. Finding nothing nearby you opt to wipe the glaze on your pant legs.
The department head reaches your desk and he has a gleam in his eye that further reinforces what you already knew - he hates you. Before he even says it you can see the words there resting in his countenance, cruelly violating your safe space with a silent but resounding bang of the gavel. You're being fired.
After 10 years of working your ass off - it's over. Well, you haven't really been working your ass off, right? Wouldn't it be more accurate to say you've been drowning yourself in booze and junk food just to get through all the days and nights of endless, meaningless bullshit?
This is one of the times in your life where you will have a very clear choice to make; a very difficult choice. You can either do as most people would do and see this as just one more failure in a lifetime of failures, or you can take the other path. Realizing that your perception of events is what gives them value (or takes it away), you can see this for what it is - a chance. This is the type of chance that doesn't come along very often. This is a wake up call the likes of which that alarm on your smartphone that so rudely awakens you every weekday morning couldn't hope to compete with.
Losing this job wasn't your first choice, and in fact that desk probably would have become your coffin as you toiled away the days in agony for the rest of your days, but now you are in this situation - so what will you do? Will you take this opportunity to finally do something with your life that actually matters to you? Will you find work that you can be proud of while working on improving yourself so that you can actually enjoy this life? Will you drop the junk and the drink and pickup some fucking spinach and some weights?
Or will you, in the fashion of the dejected, abjectly send out your resume to anyone who'll look at it, hoping to get another "job" so that you can feel safe in your bubble of self-hatred?
The choice is yours. Obviously this situation doesn't apply to everyone, but we all go through shitty times and it is completely up to each of us as individuals how we perceive them; which light we choose to view them in. It's up to you to make any event in your life an opportunity for growth - or to allow it to be an ever present obstacle and hindrance to progress.
What will you do?
Until next time,
JP
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