About a year ago, I burnt a bunch of bridges at work and became a pariah at my office. My senior manager despised me for screwing over her colleague and close friend, and the only people who would talk to me were my former trainees, whom I'd just been thrown back into the lion's den with. I was lovesick, broke, burnt out and totally miserable.
During those days, I used to daydream about being in a very specific - but wholly unrealistic - position, from which I envisaged a narrow sliver of opportunity to fix all my problems at once.
Now here I find myself, this weekend, pissed off and with a match in hand, stood at the end of a very similar bridge, and it's just occurred to me that somehow I'm in exactly that ridiculously improbable position I "wished" for a year ago.
So yes, It's a huge surprise that I'm here, but it's a little bittersweet, because I think I'm too late to fix the biggest of those problems.
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