So What Next?

Redundant-No longer needed, superfluous, omitted without loss of meaning or function.

Laid-Off-Having lost your job, discharged, dismissed, fired, pink-slipped.

Today was my last day at the job I’ve spent the last 3 years at. To start with I was scared, what was going to become of me? Where was I going to go and what was I going to do? I hated the thought of being the new girl all over again, I thought I’m to old for all this new girl shit.

That line of thinking dissolved into thinking about all the adventures that are ahead of me. It was time to go, I’d reached the top of what I was going to be able to do there. Time to see what comes next. I always do like a new adventure after all.

My last paid day is the 31st of December. That’s a very important date to me. December 31st 1997 8am, the day my plane landed at Manchester airport. The day that my biggest adventure started, 14 years ago. So as I mark the anniversary of that big adventure, I’ll be looking forward to a new one.

All the best things happen when it’s hard or painful, if everything was easy no one would want to try to do anything. Life would be really dull if everything was easy.

I drove out of the parking lot today, window rolled down, the stereo turned up to 11 (please someone get that joke!) and had the song TubThumping blasting into the warm, blue sky, day. If you don’t know the song most of it consists of this one line sung over and over again:

(We’ll be singing, when we’re winning, we’ll be singing)

I get knocked down, but I get up again
You’re never going to keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You’re never going to keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You’re never going to keep me down
I get knocked down, but I get up again
You’re never going to keep me down

And you know what? That song is right. I get knocked down, but I get up again.

Come on gang, jump in the back of the van lets see where this road goes.