As I start another chapter, help me learn serenity
On Monday morning, it's back to work. Back to the old company, but it's not the old job. I've always believed that the ability to do a certain thing, even to do it well does not make doing it an imperative. When I resigned from my position as Senior Copywriter at McCann-Erickson in 1996, this was my guiding principle. And yet, here I am about to embark upon similar territory, led as it were by happenstance. And I'm not unhappy. I am quite the opposite, yet puzzled as to why.
Perhaps it is the creativity of it or the challenge of persuading people that this is the way they should take, not that. Maybe it is the potential satisfaction of being able to point to profit that I was responsible for. I'm not sure. At the moment, all I know is that I am a different person now from the person I was a decade ago. I am a writer. I am a mother. And I am more flexible and so much better able to see the big picture now than I ever used to be. I'm taking a deep breath and hoping to master a skill I have only recently begun to learn: serenity.
And so it starts.
