I did not realize it until writing the title for this post, but today is the one month anniversary of my personal Great Resignation!
I’m still very much adjusting to the change, mentally. I probably will be “adjusting” for months out, yet. Still, I feel great. My mental health has improved dramatically and not for nothing so has my creativity. I’m back up to writing a lot of words every day on stories I love, and that even includes fanfiction.
Having my life back has been worth it. The last time I felt this at peace in my life was, I think, my second semester in grad school…so that would be spring of 2011. I was on unemployment and racking up too much in student loans, so it was not golden, but I had a very real feeling of certainty about my life; I was divorced and living alone, I was in grad school, I was out on the front porch studying when the weather was great, and I was also still writing then, just getting my first novels published by an indie press. I mean the worst part of that era was that I had not met Keely yet!
I feel the same feelings I did then: this is the right path, and this is what I need to do. I ended up making some wrong decisions after that (2012-13 I’m looking at you!) but eh, over all? I was doing as much of the right thing as I could do then, much as I am doing that now.
Anyway, last night I was walking Keely and saw this old light post in the back lot of Midtown Crossfit (formerly Perdue’s Automotive). Another monstrous beauty!
