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Today's
Meditation:
Sometimes
I find myself starting to get down about the future and
the possibilities in my life. When I send in a
resume and I don't even receive an acknowledgement of it,
then I start to take it personally, thinking there must be
something wrong with me that keeps someone else from even
wanting to interview me for a position.
But
I really don't know enough about such a situation to allow
myself to be pessimistic. I don't know if an
in-house candidate was chosen before all others, or if
someone with a much better resume was chosen. I
don't know if there was a lot of discussion about me, or
if three people thought I should be interviewed but the
boss made an executive decision.
And
I don't know what's a few weeks or months in the future--
perhaps getting this job would make it impossible
for me to accept another position that's much more suited
to me and for me. Perhaps I would have been working
with people who would have seriously limited my potential
or who would have treated me poorly.
All
we can do is recognize that we always will face change and
uncertainty and that our futures should never be scripted,
for that script will be altered. If we can relax and
let life take us where it will, we can get much more out
of life and living, and we can be optimistic enough to
know that we don't know enough to feel bad about certain
situations.
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