so, as always, i have been listening to the current at my desk this morning, and felt particularly encouraged to know that on this day in 1977, elvis costello officially quit his day job (at elizabeth arden cosmetics--what?) to make music full-time.now, i am not comparing myself to elvis costello in any way, really. but i will say that i have been a fan for a long time (ever since my sister introduced me to him in high school), and that mostly my criteria for admiration of artists/musicians/writers is essentially a lifetime of interesting and growing work (i have been thoroughly enjoying his new album, secret, profane, and sugarcane, by the way).
what i am trying to say is: everyone has to take the leap sometime. and while there are probably a lot of people who have leapt and not landed so well as mr. costello, i don't know about them, so i can't really dwell on being discouraged by their stories! (nice how that works out, huh?)
does this post make any sense? i have been sick all week and spent what felt like an entire year in bed yesterday. i returned to work today--because to my company, sick is not an option--but still don't feel like my brain is forming coherent anything. . . .
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1977. such a good year. so many cool things happened in 1977.
ReplyDeleteThis makes perfect sense. Keep all sights on the positive, and Elvis Costello is a perfect one to emulate. I'm sorry you've been sick... funny how the body works to tell us things! In my experience, the time between giving notice and actually being done goes soooooooooooooooo slowly. Hang in there!
ReplyDeleteabout the sick: your body is internalizing all the transition. let it happen. my friend anna has lyme's disease and upped her dosage of antibiotics, and what happened? she spent two weeks in bed. it was her body taking in the medicine and working with it. the sickness she felt was the sign that the antibiotics were hitting the right bacteria. . . weird analogy, but it works. you're hitting the right bacteria.
ReplyDeletethank you both! oh, my gosh, so true about the sick! my boss even had the audacity to question me on it yesterday when i called--with no voice, mind you--to tell her i wasn't coming in. i realized yesterday, as i lay sweating in bed that this is kind of the culmination of months' worth of stress, all converging on me. it will be good to have it behind me. . . .
ReplyDeleteYou'll probably be drained of energy for a little while after you quit. You've been surviving on your energy reserves and it might take some time to fill your well back up. AND, the happiest people are those who take risks, not those who are necessarily "successful" in the traditional sense of the word.
ReplyDeleteMakes perfect sense. Make room in your life, and good things will flow in!
ReplyDeletei love you, laura elvis brown.
ReplyDeleteyou sound PERFECTLY coherent to me. ;)
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