Crystal Gunn
Founder,
Author,
Speaker,
Friend
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changed. It’s that time of the year
when we feel obligated to take
our own personal inventory. When
we take stock of the promises we
didn’t keep to ourselves, or the
goals we’ve failed to accomplish.
But again I say: it’s been an
second in those 30ish day cycles
has deemed us different somehow.
seconds before. In every second,
every moment, we, whether we
acknowledge it or not, become
brand new. We are never who we
were, a second ago.
This life is indeed a journey. It has
its ups and downs and impasses.
There are moments when we don’t
quite know what to do. Times
when the perpetual light bulb
never ceases to illuminate, when
we get it all right, and then all
wrong. There are moments when
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we appreciate the small stuff that
we used to sweat when we were
our old selves, and then there are
moments when we seem on the
verge of a psychotic break.
And just when we think it’s all
over for us, that we won’t make
it through, we look up, and wahstill alive, still breathing and stuff.
We’ve made it, in tact, mostly. But
that we have indeed made it,
there is an intense, mean period
of self-doubt. It’s a dark place that
miraculously and with help from
the light that we do eventually
retreat from.
I know because this has happened to
me. And I’ve watched it happen time
and time again with my sister friends
with whom I share a most awesome
relationships though, the one that
stands out most starkly is the one I
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When we met, it was seemingly
by chance. I know now that it
had intervened. We needed each
other—I needed a job, she needed
an ally. That’s what it looked like on
into
a
tumultuous
situation,
professionally things were rocky.
Only I had no idea. She came in
everyday with her strong face
on. She walked and talked like a
woman without a care or struggle.
She handled her business, and
with grace I might add. I instantly
admired her.
The interview process was brief.
And even though I had few of the
qualifications she was seeking, she
hired me anyway. I knew it before
she told me. I was grateful. As
mortgage
broker/employer,
We became intimately involved
in each other’s lives, shared