Stay On The Ball

Went out to the wild and received a splash of Mediterranean Sea foam all over my face. Recent rain showers and heavy yellow mist are almost making it feel like winter again, but it’s not cold. I’ll quote Toby Keith and ask the wind: “Don’t leave, I think I Love you!” While everyone is wearing pompom-hats, thick coats and sweaters, 3 years in Vancouver have made it seem not so wet.

While sitting in cafés looking for jobs on the laptop, too many things distract my mind. Just like anything else, the job hunt is a stay-on-the-ball game. If you don’t keep the energies flowing and if you don’t keep on going, it’s hard to stay sharp with all the white noise around. It’s important to make a strong and open initial impression when the right opportunities do come, but you must fight tooth and nail to get them.

Then you realize two more weeks have passed and even though you’ve been constantly doing something, no progress has come. I thought this easiness is called the “comfort zone”, but I know I can’t sink into this territory again. Enough self-improvement has made a doer out of me and thankfully there’s no way back. But since results are being delayed and I’m being impatient, some mild melancholy is trying to sneak in after a long time it’s been kept away; a natural part of the job hunt process.

Sadness is one of the oldest distractions that can turn your life around. Somehow, at its purest forms it brings out the strongest feelings in us. Perhaps they feel so strong because they’re obviously destined to end. To leave a mark and to bring change, and to stay young in body and mind till you’re old. Happily, my iPod can remind me where I’m from.