Mike Needs a Life Blog Reposts – Part 26

August 17, 2009
Holy CRAP

OK, so I just realized that It’s my one year anniversary of getting laid off !!!

I’ve pretty much (Except for the short stint at Millenia) been out of work for a year! I remember telling everyone when I got laid off that I was going to move to the Caribbean and disappear… I didn’t have any idea how in the hell I could pull that off, but I was saying it anyways. Well, I’m a lot closer to that goal now than I was then.. I guess the power of positive thinking really does effect your life even if you don’t know how the hell it’s going to work!

I have to attribute a lot of this to Christina’s strength and capacity for positive visualization, without her I’d probably be sleeping in that alley between Cleo’s and Cairo downtown Orlando.. haha. You rock Christina. (It’s OK for me to say that here, she doesn’t ready my blog)

I went back and read my first couple of posts in this blog from back when I was set free, and I can’t believe the difference in the way I feel about life now vs. then. Back then I was slogging through my days and weeks just moving along aimlessly… like walking with my eyes focused on the ground.. just waiting for the next day of the same old same old. When you get to that place in life where you’re just floating in the murky stream of some job you really could care less about only to have it abruptly taken away from you, it’s a real shock to the system. You kind of have to learn how to breathe again. I look back on it now and liken it to that scene in the matrix when Neo wakes up in the pod and finally has a look around himself at the real world. The only difference is that in my instance, I woke up in reverse of that.. I left the real-world battery pod for the matrix world.

Now I feel like I have so much going on and there are so many possibilities of cool things to do and be involved in, I don’t know how to prioritize. Of course I’m not making any MONEY, but I am certainly much happier being poor and enlivened than rich and rudderless.

Let’s hope that in another year, I’ll look back at this post and be in an even better place! Keep climbing out of the muck into the fantasy!