The whole week last week seemed bleak. In this economically difficult times, we are faced with the hardest decision to keep the Agency stable. Cost cutting, Streamlining, Retrenchment… however way you call it, it only means one thing… taking away one’s bread and butter on such time that you can barely afford butter on bread!
And what makes it even more depressing is that we are doing this to people who are more than workmates or colleagues, people who really were family for 10 years now. Sadder still, is that there simply has no other choice! And just when nothing seemed more desolate, I was tasked to tell them they are being “Let go!”
Haven’t slept for four days now… there is no easy way of doing this! And today was the day… the day the LIFE Support will be turned off… by me! I expected protest, anger, dismay, Court Case, even!… Surprisingly, none of these happened…There was sadness, YES, but there was also understanding and gratefulness!
When I stepped out into the woods last week, I only saw the shadows, the darkness brought by blocking trunk and branches. When I stepped into this same woods today, I suddenly saw the sunbeam sipping through the branches of trees.. then I realized:
Sunlight like graciousness, pass through the thickest, largest branches and lights the other side… no matter how great the barrier, how hard the times!
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