I recently asked S what his favorite thing about me was.
And then his least favorite.
I expected him to say when I yell or when I don’t let him watch YouTube.
“You work,” he said.
𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘬? I wondered. I asked him what about me working didn’t he like since I work from home.
I expected him to say I work all day or I’m on my phone too much.
Instead, he said “Last week you went to work [I go into my office once every other week], and I was sad. I missed you.”
This made me think:
1) I’m way harder on myself than my kids are on me, and
2) Sometimes it’s weird looking back on all the time, energy, money (and school loans) I invested into becoming a lawyer, and yet I don’t practice anymore.
But in our one car conversation, my desire and decision to work from home in a non-lawyer role and in a different field (communications) were 𝘳𝘦-𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘮𝘦𝘥.
𝐈’𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠.
𝐈’𝐦 𝐰𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐈’𝐦 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐛𝐞.
𝐈𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 — 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐫.
𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐲 𝐛𝐥𝐨𝐠 𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐩𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞.
Cheers to 3 years here as Moments of Musing! Thanks for your support.
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