All juiced out …and good to go again!

All juiced out …and good to go again!

I’m all juiced out. I feel like I have been pitted, shredded and squished. I started out like a fresh lemon this morning, all shiny and perky, and as the day progressed at work, the only thing lemony about me now is my color! This is the feeling of being worn out. I have stretched my brain in so many different directions and boy does that feel good!

 At one point in my not so distant past, I considered relinquishing my civil responsibility as a working human being. I simply did not want to be a career woman. Where have all those jazzy careers led us anyways? (but that’s another blog), anyhow, in that moment in time, I needed to be home - alone with my thoughts to sit and re-group after a challenging year living through the financial crisis that brought Dubai down to its knees – and me along with it! I wanted to wake up slowly, watch my percolator drip and inhale the fresh aroma of my nice coffee. I wanted to wander out into my lovely balcony, water my plants unhurriedly and generally spend the day migrating from one room to the other…I am not someone who gets bored you see, and dropping my career for all this free time didn’t seem like a crazy idea. 

Ironically, as much as I needed to stay out of the lime light, life happened -- as it always does -- and I was pushed to full exposure with my new job. Ohh… how I struggled with that…. I so needed to be alone, but now I’m with everyone.

As it would be…being with everyone isn’t as bad as its all cracked out to be. Take away office politics and a few miserable characters around me, I’m finding my confidence again. Working gets you out of the house – you have a destination that requires you to get going. It’s the interaction with people, social exercising your character, and engaging yourself with new concepts that keeps you fresh! To stay fresh like the lemon– ironically – requires that we get all juiced out sometimes. Twisted logic J