Change is a mysterious thing.
It comes, often unanounced, and decides to alter your life in some unexpected way.
It's almost like Life itself is throwing a curve ball at you to see how you'll handle it. The thing about life is that it doesn't care how you handle it, that part is up to you. You decide who you are and what sort of person you want to be by the decisions you make when confronted with change.
For me, I've had some crazy change lately. I'm moving away from Toronto back to the Niagara region to persue a much better job. There's something about working 12 hour days for a straight check of $1200/month that just doesn't quite cut it here in the city.
The decision wasn't easy, mind you. I enjoy Toronto, despite it's insane cost to live here. I enjoy the culture and the people. The fact I can actually meet people that are remotely like me is quite astounding when coming from a small town in the backwoods of South Ontario.
In this change of mine, which goes down 1 week from today, I called into question my 3 year relationship with my girlfriend. I figured that with our distance we should decide what we want to do after a few months of being apart, and whether or not she'll want to come up to live with me in the spring once she's finished her school. Her parents were dead against it, for a number of reasons. They like me and all, but she's taking fine art, so there isn't any work relating to that field in Niagara, firstly. Second, it puts her further away from her family, which no one likes either.
So, when I mentioned these to her, and advised that 'maybe your parents are right?', she got rather upset and decided to end everything right there.
So, after 3 years of tumultuous ups and downs, it's finally over and she and I can move on with our lives. I can finally be the person I once was before I was twisted into fitting into her 'vision' of what I 'should' be, and she has the freedom to move anywhere in the world she wants. She hates Toronto, and coming from Tanzania (she lived there from age 13 to 18), I can understand. She doesn't exactly _get_ North American culture to the same degree that those of us who grew up with The Simpsons, CNN and the birth of The Internet.
So, it's exciting. New work, new people to meet, old friends to catch up with, and the financial stability I've been working so hard to secure. The bonus of it all is that I get to work with one of my best friends doing something I love (I'll be a Network Operations Manager), and I can do it close to my family. Finding this sort of work is why I left Niagara in the first place to go to Toronto.
With that said, I say Cheers to Change... May its winds guide us all safely to shore =)
It comes, often unanounced, and decides to alter your life in some unexpected way.
It's almost like Life itself is throwing a curve ball at you to see how you'll handle it. The thing about life is that it doesn't care how you handle it, that part is up to you. You decide who you are and what sort of person you want to be by the decisions you make when confronted with change.
For me, I've had some crazy change lately. I'm moving away from Toronto back to the Niagara region to persue a much better job. There's something about working 12 hour days for a straight check of $1200/month that just doesn't quite cut it here in the city.
The decision wasn't easy, mind you. I enjoy Toronto, despite it's insane cost to live here. I enjoy the culture and the people. The fact I can actually meet people that are remotely like me is quite astounding when coming from a small town in the backwoods of South Ontario.
In this change of mine, which goes down 1 week from today, I called into question my 3 year relationship with my girlfriend. I figured that with our distance we should decide what we want to do after a few months of being apart, and whether or not she'll want to come up to live with me in the spring once she's finished her school. Her parents were dead against it, for a number of reasons. They like me and all, but she's taking fine art, so there isn't any work relating to that field in Niagara, firstly. Second, it puts her further away from her family, which no one likes either.
So, when I mentioned these to her, and advised that 'maybe your parents are right?', she got rather upset and decided to end everything right there.
So, after 3 years of tumultuous ups and downs, it's finally over and she and I can move on with our lives. I can finally be the person I once was before I was twisted into fitting into her 'vision' of what I 'should' be, and she has the freedom to move anywhere in the world she wants. She hates Toronto, and coming from Tanzania (she lived there from age 13 to 18), I can understand. She doesn't exactly _get_ North American culture to the same degree that those of us who grew up with The Simpsons, CNN and the birth of The Internet.
So, it's exciting. New work, new people to meet, old friends to catch up with, and the financial stability I've been working so hard to secure. The bonus of it all is that I get to work with one of my best friends doing something I love (I'll be a Network Operations Manager), and I can do it close to my family. Finding this sort of work is why I left Niagara in the first place to go to Toronto.
With that said, I say Cheers to Change... May its winds guide us all safely to shore =)