I was still sleeping at 9:00 am this morning when the phone rang and woke me up. Sleeping in late has become almost a natural habit, right along with staying in my pajamas all day long. Well that is unless I have to check the mail, take out the trash, or go to the store. I have found that staying in your pajamas all day saves on the utility bills and the cost of the laundry soap and dryer sheets.

Hearing the noise of the phone ringing isn’t an event that has happened very often in the last 2 ½ years, while I have been on this horrible unemployed vacation. Being sound asleep the ringing startled me so bad that you would have thought that the smoke detector had just went off. I jumped up in bed out of shock looking around the room, for what was making that sound; I told you I was sound asleep. I figured out that it was my cell so I quickly grabbed it, slid it open and said, “Hello!”

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I quickly recognized the lady’s voice on the other end; it was the office manager at the corporation that I used to work at for 7 yrs. I left that job to go to work for another company, in August of 2007. I had stepped out of my comfort zone, which is usually a good thing for someone to do if you want to get ahead in life. This move out of my comfort zone was the beginning of my life crumbling to my feet, shattering into a million. It wasn’t what caused it, but things might not have turned out as badly as they had in the last 3 1/2 years.

One really never knows how things will turn out. When in life can you ever foresee the outcome of the sequences of events? If we could, I believe that we would never grow or learn anything, because we would not take the chances or risks in life that change our lives for the good or the bad.

Then you have faith on the side lines throwing you curve balls and fast pitches that if you don’t aim and hit them just right you will strike out.

There were many sequences of events that happened in the last 3 1/2 years that brought me to where I am right now. Being unemployed for 2 ½ years, major health problems, and a little of my mind still left; I did say a little. Trying to fight my way through life, keeping my head above water without drowning; I am just waving. Climbing those enormous mountains, that have placed themselves all around my life. Thinking that I am making head way, getting half way up those mountains being proud of how far that I had gotten.

Then, WHAM!! WHAM!! I get knocked back down into the valley ways with a blunt force that it knocks me for a loop and I get lost for awhile.  One thing that I can honestly say, is that I have not given up or given in, thou there were a few times I have thought about it long and hard. I am still paying a costly price for that high speed spit ball that hit me right square on the head.

I have got back up again everytime, while saying out loud, “Damn that one hurt a lot.” I have dusted off the dirt, pointed my chin to the sky, put a smile on my face, planted my feet firmly on home plate, and I have proudly walked on, while saying, “Bring it on! I am ready for whatever you got to throw at me.”

I have learned many valuable lessons about myself, and about life. Life isn’t always easy, and for the most part it is a beautiful journey, if you are walking down the right path. Those are the choices and decisions that we have to make in our lives that will change our lives with every breath that we take.

You can only hope that you have learned enough while you have been following the sun from east to west, that you will pick the right pitch, hitting that out of the ball park home run, and getting a little ahead in the journey of life. I have learned that whatever you have in life, and everything around you, including the people that you love and care about,  nothing is secure and can be taken from you in one heart beat…..

GONE! Look around right now what do you see?

The only thing in your life that can not be given nor can it be taken away is your inner peace of mind. That comes from having faith in God, or a Higher Power that is greater than yourself. Having faith in something that you cannot see or touch, but it is something that has so much power to change life as you know it right now.

If you don’t have time to live your life now, when will you?

Don’t be afraid that your life will end, be afraid that your life will never begin…

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The voice came over the other end saying, “Good morning, how you are doing today?”

We got to chatting about things in life; she wanted a little update on how I was doing. Not only was she my boss, office manager, but she is a good friend of mine too, one that I would trust with life. After the quick chat session she said, “Well I had called for two reasons, one being to see how you are doing. The other was to see if you would be interested in coming in to talk to us about possibly working part-time.”

I was about to jump so high with excitment that I would have hit my head on the ceiling.  I told her, “Yes I would be interested.”

She said, “Well I will tell you that it will only be 10 hours a week, until the construction industry turns around. Who knows what will happen in the industry right now. Are you still interested?”

I said, “Yes! Still very interested! When do you want me to come in?”

She said, “Hold on I will find out when he (he being the owner of the company) would like you to come in. I will be right back.”

She came back on the phone while standing in his office and asked me what I was doing tomorrow. Then I hear him tell her that he had an hour or so free right now if I wanted to come in now to talk. She said to him, “She just woke up, matter a fact I woke her up.”

Then she comes back on the phone and tells me that he had time now if I wanted to come in.

I said, “Well you know me, I can get ready in 15 minutes and be on my way.”

She said, “Yes I know you can, and I still have no idea how you do it. So we will see you in about a half hour then.”

I went into the office, the three of us talked, and I start working tomorrow..

I GOT A JOB!!!! I GOT A JOB!!! I GOT A JOB!!!!

I am so excited that I want to go on the roof and scream it out to the world. After 2 ½ yrs of not having a job those words sound so great rolling off my tongue. I have work 2 to 3 jobs for the last 27 years, to raise my 2 girls on my own,  this last 2 ½ years about done me in, I don’t do idle time very well at all.

Even if it is only part-time, I got my foot back in the door. I always liked working there, who I worked for and worked with, and what I did. Like my boss said, I have a boss now, “You never know what could happen. You will also be around the customers and the industry again, so who knows someone else could possibly need you part-time or full-time.” He is right, and they all know who I am, and how I work.

It not only gets my foot back in the door, around the people, but it also gives me something to do, gets me out of the house, and it DAMN SURE MAKES ME FEEL GREAT!!! I will still be able to keep my Medicaid, and other assistance, I called and checked, can’t afford to lose the Medicaid with my back problems and other health issues, that would be too costly of a price all the way around.

So who knows what will come of it all.

I will keep embracing the power inside me to rewrite my own destiny, let the compassion and passion that over flows out from deep within my soul drive me with the persistence to succeed.

I will keep my chin up, a smile on my face, plant my feet on solid ground, and I will proudly walk on, no matter what life deals to me. It just makes me stronger and builds character, what I have been through in my life I have a lot of the strength and character.

© 2011 Fireeyes24