I still work on Mondays. I just lost my tolerance for working for someone else.
Monday mornings are bad enough. A Monday morning when you have to report to yet another demanding boss is intolerable.
So instead, I’m enjoying a slow morning with my coffee in my favorite chair by the fire. I just finished journaling, and now I’m planning the rest of the day.
Sometimes, I feel like I stepped off a frenetic and crowded carnival ride that I was on for most of my life. Now, from the outside, I watch everyone else whizzing by—going round and round.
School, work, family, and life.
Hustling and bustling every day.
Must always be productive!
Must always be pursuing a new goal!
Keep busy, busy, busy!
Round and round you go. Monday through Friday, then a quick weekend, and back to Monday again! Rinse and repeat every week.
Well, you could wait until the bitter end. Stay on that ride until someone carries you off and plops a fresh new person in your old seat.
I’ve watched a few friends and colleagues do that. They never got off to go explore the rest of the world, really live their lives, and truly enjoy themselves before it was too late.
Well, one did for about 6 months. Then… they were gone.
You discover that it’s a pretty wild and amazing world if you are willing to leave the carnival grounds behind. You realize how constrained your worldview was—the silliness of the bubble that felt oh-so-important (until you view it from the outside).
However, no one is coming to rescue you from the ride. Hell, most are happy to let you sit and go round and round until you die. Sadly, that’s what most people do.
I don’t know how many years I have left. But I do know that stepping off the ride in 2010 has let me live the best years of my life for the past 16.
It has been challenging, for sure. I won’t tell you it’s easy, but it has been worth it.
Are you willing to escape that carnival ride and head out into the world that’s waiting for you?
Or will you stay on that ride with everyone else until the end?
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