I am happily humbled by the amount of book orders I have received, and furthermore, thank you for all of the compliments. You guys are nothing short of amazing. You sure do know how to make a girl feel like it's okay to write my life out.
As for this year: I still haven't figured out what I want to be when I 'grow up'. I am currently working at a factory, building lawnmowers, and while this started as simply proving a point (Kenny didn't think I could handle factory work), the truth is, I am having more fun than I have ever had at a job. Sure, I'm working my ass off (literally), but I am singing and dancing and even when I make a mistake, there are plenty of people to laugh with me and say, "I've done that at least twenty times..."
What I'm trying to say is that even though I may not have my life figured out, I am just in love with the whole world. I love working so hard that my ribs hurt. I love laughing so hard that my tummy aches. I especially love the tornado of personalities all in one place. I don't see people as just people; I see them as colors. So you might walk into this factory and see red and black, because those are the colors of the lawnmowers. But if you're me, you see red and black and then every other color bouncing all over the place because of all of the personalities that just cannot be contained. Everybody has a story and they really do want to be heard if only you take a couple of minutes to get them talking. I love learning people's lives. I love that smiles are contagious (I made sixteen people smile today). I really, really love the explosion of emotion that can be extracted from each and every person if you hit just the right subject.
So...go find emotions. They're everywhere.
You know what I think about when I read this? (gonna tell you anyway)
ReplyDeleteYou are a very brave person.
Most people spend years in jobs paralyzed by fear of quitting and or starting something new. But you decide that you don't like a job and quit to be happy. And then you take a job on a dare!
You say that you admire Kyler for not caring what people think. He learned it from you.
It also takes a lot of courage to write the things you do, that let people see into your life, this scares the crap out of most people.
I looked at the date on this post...How many of those people at work were smiling at you laughing at me?
Jeff L