Thursday, January 30, 2014

Whoops...forgot about this, but let me explain why

Wow three years have gone by since I was that girl who was tired of being depressed. I was tired of being sad for myself. I was tired of it all. So I made a change, and the change I grabbed to was the one that defined my roots. Being positive. Sometimes being positive sucks. It's a choice. You can chose to be happy or to be sad. Back in January 2010 I was coming up on a full year of being unemployed - or "funemployed" as my generation named it, since at the time so many of us found ourselves without a job. My last post was about a double rainbow, and my mom saying it was a good omen. I had spent a year of my life, going on walks with my mother. An exact year- from April 2009 to April 2010. It started because I had reached so low in my life my mom kind of had to drag me outside. I had completely isolated myself from the world. And that is highly highly unusual and not like me. I, at the time had no other direction to go. I was trying to land a position in the same career, that is extremely competitive and at times unrealistic, but I kept trying and I kept getting denied. I kept getting rejected. I kept getting asked why I would leave a job--in the middle of a recession. I couldn't answer it. Because my truth was my truth and I looked stupid to the world. They didn't know what had happened at my last job, and I didn't know if I could ever explain it correctly, without it making me sound like a "woe is me". All I knew is if I could work, I would work harder than anyone else. If it wasn't for my mom, who would have me go walk the park with her, I don't know where I would be. Probably not here. So I started a blog. My goal was to do it every day. I wanted to share positivity. I wanted to make myself happy and help others find their happiness. That day after I posted my last post my phone rang. I was just sitting on the couch. It was a news director for a station in Missouri. He asked me if I had a job. (I almost laughed when he asked). He told me about a position that was opening up, and asked me if I could fly out there for an interview. So I went. I got the job. I spent three awesome years there becoming locally famous and shining. I just landed another gig in a larger city making double the pay. I have been thinking about starting a blog because I get a lot of emails about stuff I use on TV, and I thought, well I might as well share what I know. When I was looking at sites THIS one had me log in. I was like what???? So I logged in and bam. I saw my innocent little posts about trying to find happiness. I needed to see this today, because in all honesty, I have been complaining a lot lately. So for that girl who had the biggest heart but thought she had hit rock bottom, I'm going to start this up again.

1 comment:

  1. Hey! I just read this :) Hope to hear more soon. Love your blog xoxo

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