Job loss. Whether years of your life were invested in your job, whether you loved it or despised it, no one wants to be let down, told to pack and go. No one wants their foundation shaken and their job security snatched from them. Yet like anything unwelcome, job loss is something we must cope with.
And in coping with a change like losing one's job, it is important to remember that unwanted change is inevitable and there is a grieving process that accompanies that change. To this I say, reach out to the people around you. Face your fears head on and swallow. As Abraham Lincoln, a great example of someone who overcame failure, once said: A monarch of the East once asked his wise men to tell him one precept which always would be true. The wise men conferred, then answered: "This too shall pass."
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by Emily Dickinson
I shall know why - when Time is over -
And I have ceased to wonder why -
Christ will explain each separate anguish
In the fair schoolroom of the sky -
He will tell me what "Peter" promised -
And I - for wonder at his woe -
I shall forget the drop of Anguish
That scalds me now - that scalds me now!
