Salt
This year, well, it is what it is in a way. Anybody that knows me can see how tough it has been for me just to make it through this far. The last two weeks though have kind of turned everything around though in an odd way.
Hear that noise? It's our wake up call.
As the financial markets have taken a turn for the worst, it seems like everybody around me has suddenly paused to take note of what I have been seeing all year long and it is now affecting them. What was a passing conversation about my job search followed by the assumption that "It's gonna all right for him, he's smart" has now quickly become a situation of careful self examination of individual employment by everybody around me. Being around panic, chaos or disorder has never been my thing but the way that it is affecting others just bothers me because it rips at heart of what makes us human and uncovers all of the ugly possibilities that nobody wants to face.
I recently found out that a friend from days past is now separated from her husband who is in a different city now and boy did that get me. I know these guys to be a strong couple where love abounded and also a strong family that very much had God in their lives. It wasn't enough and that is a hard realization to see the couples that you think will make it fall away. Maybe that is my blessing that I don't have a wife and child right now as I am going through this because my stress would only be magnified. And then there is the family that I read about that was killed by a husband who was distraught over being without a job - how in the world do things get that bad?
Now listen, listen to the truth
It does not matter, doesn't matter what you do
Still gonna be you
Just like the salt in the stew
Yeah it's all a part of you
And one thing, the one thing that life cannot do
It can't take your song from you
Hear that noise? It's our wake up call.
As the financial markets have taken a turn for the worst, it seems like everybody around me has suddenly paused to take note of what I have been seeing all year long and it is now affecting them. What was a passing conversation about my job search followed by the assumption that "It's gonna all right for him, he's smart" has now quickly become a situation of careful self examination of individual employment by everybody around me. Being around panic, chaos or disorder has never been my thing but the way that it is affecting others just bothers me because it rips at heart of what makes us human and uncovers all of the ugly possibilities that nobody wants to face.
I recently found out that a friend from days past is now separated from her husband who is in a different city now and boy did that get me. I know these guys to be a strong couple where love abounded and also a strong family that very much had God in their lives. It wasn't enough and that is a hard realization to see the couples that you think will make it fall away. Maybe that is my blessing that I don't have a wife and child right now as I am going through this because my stress would only be magnified. And then there is the family that I read about that was killed by a husband who was distraught over being without a job - how in the world do things get that bad?
Now listen, listen to the truth
It does not matter, doesn't matter what you do
Still gonna be you
Just like the salt in the stew
Yeah it's all a part of you
And one thing, the one thing that life cannot do
It can't take your song from you
posted by Booster MPS at
8:33 PM
3 Comments:
Every couple I thought would make it hasn't (myself included). Every couple I didn't think stood a chance is still going strong. My next profession will not involve betting om marriages.
Thank God I saved. That is making this period a bit less stressful. I am glad I am cheap. I have cut expenses to the point that my bank account eeks up from time to time.
I am just glad I have some "always in demand" skills that can earn me a paycheck. Now if people would stop hitting my car.
we have totally re-evaluated the way in which we live and it's crazy. all of it.
i remember when my best friends parents divorced. that was a hard one for me to understand. they had been together for 30 some years..then one day....two households. crazy.
i am soooo ready for a change. in everything.
money - or the lack thereof - enhances character traits that are already there under the surface. i can point the finger in my own direction with that one.
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