When you have no reason to get up in the morning but to watch the sun rise then you have found happiness. Getting up dreadfully in the wee hours of the morning and wishing your office would burn to the ground is not the way to live. Live for you. Live merely for life! The pressures of what to eat and what to wear should be left to the Lord who clothes the lillies and feeds the sparrows.
I resigned from my job. I’m not bored yet but I’m happy. I’m happy I don’t have so much responsibility and I can get up at any time I want to. My pursuit of happyness has ended. I have found it! Ok wait, I still want to have a baby and then maybe it will be over for real.
that there is nothing short of bravery! Cudos….on the next level-all the best
Comment by xiona — August 21, 2009 @ 3:51 PM
bravo bravo!!…..i cant even envisage myself quiting my job…its impossible for me…may b my pursuit of happiness lies wid me going wid my job!!!lolzzz
Comment by santosh — August 22, 2009 @ 9:24 AM
congs… atleast you are happy. i cant imagine leaving my job wothout first finding another one, hope you find a job you like because you cant be jobless forever. cheers. Marsy
Comment by Mercella — August 22, 2009 @ 12:12 PM
Quitting a job is one of the most shit-frightening and then suddenly liberating things in the universe! Congwatulations.
Now you have time to visit Jinja and teach me to pole dance. Boyfie’s birthday is coming up and I am out of ideas. But seriously, breathe, enjoy this and wait for better things to come. Good on you.
Comment by petesmama — August 24, 2009 @ 9:17 AM
Larkin contemplates going to work at dawn:
“Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape.
It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know,
Have always known, know that we can’t escape
Yet can’t accept. One side will have to go.
Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring
In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring
Intricate rented world begins to rouse.
The sky is white as clay, with no sun.
Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.”
Comment by Baz — August 24, 2009 @ 7:26 PM
i will tell you what Ivan told me when i quit my job and yes, found rather useful…”do not get comfortable.”
so yay you! enjoy the time off…but do not get comfortable!
Comment by Heaven! — August 25, 2009 @ 2:31 PM
Oh you are such a romantic.
Good on you for quitting your job. Good on you. there are better things to come.
Comment by tumwijuke — August 25, 2009 @ 6:52 PM
Pursue what makes you happy!
Comment by Tricia — August 30, 2009 @ 9:54 AM
really brave move…i am still surmassing the courage
Comment by lulu — September 3, 2009 @ 8:47 PM
this, now this… this makes sense on so many levels. very very… high, higher… FIVE!
Comment by streetsider — September 3, 2009 @ 10:49 PM
i know someone who walked down this road last year…and after quite a bit of bollocks, they finally found themselves…i love the courage, kudos to you
Comment by Sleek — September 8, 2009 @ 6:50 PM