When Leaving a Job Feels Like a Breakup: A Personal Reflection.
A break-up suggests something is being broken; cut off, or detached. Which points to something once being seen as a whole. A wound is caused where the cut-off occurs. Most usually that wound occurs deep in our hearts.
Whether it's a break-up between two people in love. A person and their home or their career. It causes pain, which needs time to heal. But there's never an indication as to how long it can take before, we can touch that part of our heart with words, thoughts, feelings and memories relevant to that wound and still not feel the pain. Perhaps the pain will never leave. Though the wound can heal, the scar remains becoming part of us. Reminding us forever of that other part that broke off from our lives.
Why Quitting a Job Can Hurt More Than a Relationship Breakup.
I've had relationship breakups with boyfriends, friends, and even family members. And it all hurt. Bad.
But when I chose to walk away and break up with my dream job, it no longer aligned with who I truly was. It was a dream job for the part of me that lived following the indivisible and societal expectations, but rather only with what I believei-broke-up-with-my-dream-job-how-long-does-healing-taked I should be for society- the pain felt and still feels far more personal supposedly because I chose to break up from a part of myself rather than something or someone external to me.
It's been 6 months now since I left my corporate lifestyle. A job providing me security, financial stability, therefore in retrospect- safety. And I chose to break off from it. To this day, I feel like I wake up and go to sleep in a whirlwind of darkness, storms, hail, rain, and incessant amount of fog. I feel uncertain. My foundation has crumbled... and I chose to let it. I do wonder more often than not, when will I no longer feel the pain and longing for that part of me?
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