Went to a retirement get-together today after work and ran into someone who was let go from The Company two years ago. She looked so much more relaxed than I had ever seen her, and she appeared years younger than she had ever looked in the past. She described the feeling she had after being released from The Company as "having a weight lifted off of my shoulders". That's exactly the way I would describe it. It is comparable to the way I felt when I first got back on my feet after giving birth to my almost-eight-pound-twin girls back in 1991! I have my energy back. I'm on top of the world. I'm smiling again. Who'da thought that being laid off as a result of "a reduction in work force" would be just the therapy I needed to get back on my feet again and forge forward? Honestly, I almost cannot stop smiling . . .
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