About 4 years ago it suddenly happened: I got fired. Kicked out.
I had a well paid job. An office job in a digital marketing agency. And from one day to the other, I realized that NOW, I had to change something.
I was slightly shocked. Sad. And in a way, I felt betrayed.
The easiest reaction to cope with the situation was: Blame the circumstances! Which I did for a few weeks. Until I realized that it didn't help me much.
(Btw. The hardest part was not to lose the job - the job was fine, but after all... it was just a job - but it was the pain of not being acknowledged and appreciated any longer that took me a while to be okay with.)
After a period being a frustrated victim, I had a thought, that this situation may be a great opportunity for me.
At my old job I wasn't 100% motivated anyways. I wasn't really all-in for the vision of the company. I basically traded my time for money. And that was fine for me. Not perfect. But fine.
Now, 4 years later, looking back:
I have one thought: Thank god, they freed me. It was in the best interest of the company. And in the best of mine.
They were the ones that gave me a chance to reinvent myself. And for the first time in my life I asked myself:
"What does really excite me to do?"
The answer that came up back then was "to write, to travel, to meet people, to learn about myself". It was then when I started my first blog.
First, very inconsistently. There was such a fear of exposure at first. It made me procrastinate and suffer.
My readership grew very slowly. But it grew. And sometimes I got appreciative emails, that somehow kept me going.
It took some time, but eventually new connections came into my life. I've met people that helped me, inspired me, gave me new ideas. And soon, I was even able to make money. Then I met my beautiful lady. And I traveled the world.
And now, I'm sitting here in Mexico. And god damn, I just had this thought, where I would be, if that company had painfully kept me in that office...
I'm just so glad.
Sometimes what seems to be the worst - can turn out to be a life-saver. But we rarely know, as long as we don't consider the bigger picture.
Umm.... I wanted to ask you: Have you had similar experiences where the "worst" turned out to lead you to something beautiful?
Sam
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Wow... that was my first post here on steemit (apart from my intro)... *patting myself on my shoulder*. I'm still a total newbie but happy and glad to be here! If you like the post, then please help me to share it. Or support it... (I still didn't figure everything out yet, how it all works) ... But thank's for reading!
Again, Sam