RE: Is This Maybe The One Good Thing That Came From Covid?
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WARNING: A HUGE COMMENT NEEDS A HUGE REPLY...LOL! I appreciate this comment of yours more than you can imagine!!!
First of all, thanks for the warning, but there was actually no need for a warning because I thoroughly enjoyed reading your comment!
Not only did I enjoy it, I appreciate it, as I do the hugs, thank you!
You've missed me...?? I've been here all the time...lol!
No, I don't think it's you... I think it might be on my side... I just really have a lot on my mind lately. Even when Lucinda and her husband were here recently, she asked... "Helloooo, Dad? Where are you? You are here but you are not here"...LOL.
So, this is a wake-up call for me, thank you. I really didn't want it to come through here on the platform...but it seems that you are picking up on more than what I anticipated...lol. It actually amazes me...Only my immediate family is normally able to pick up on these things when I get a bit "preoccupied" with things and that's it. But here you are...you haven't even met me in person, yet you sense that something is different...lol.
But it's nothing to be concerned about...just things I think any dad sometimes would give some thought to regarding the future and how things will affect the family etc...
So, here I am! And absolutely delighted with the amazing comment I received from you!
I totally get what you are saying about your previous job. And as you say, you get so caught up in the general "this is how it should be" kind of mentality, that you feel like "who do I think I am to want to do something else...or do it differently?"
I hate getting caught up in that! Yet it happens so easily. But it feels so limited...almost a kind of prison...I don't know exactly how to describe it...But I'm sure you'll know what I mean...
I love how you started to value your time though! That's awesome! It's also amazing how things change for the better the moment that money is not the first (or even the only) priority for what you are doing.
We have a famous Afrikaans musician (also Christain) here in South Africa, Joe Black. He started a men's group for men to meet once a week. I listened to an interview with him once where they were talking about this group and he said "when I ask you what you are doing for a living, I don't want to know how you make money. I'm not asking if you're a lawyer or a businessman. I want to know what you are doing to feel alive".
And yes, I really do think Covid gave many of us that opportunity indeed to think about that for a change.
And what you say about your kids and homeschooling them, while you are living on Joe's income...it sounds so familiar. When our kids were little, we also decided that Elmarie will stay at home to be there for the kids. They did go to primary school though, but their high school years were also done through homeschooling.
Even though the kids are not in the house with us anymore, I still want to get it back to where Elmarie doesn't have to work, but only if it is something she wants to do.
I'm so glad you enjoyed my post and I can't wait to read your spin-off! I'll be on the lookout!
I think your example of Joseph and his brothers is spot-on!
Once again, thanks for this amazing comment. I appreciate it so much!!
Ok just tagged you in the post hehehehe
And ..by the way...
I LOVED your cover image for this post heheheh
And what you said about me sending something was on your mind...hehehehe yeah... I can do that sometimes online!
Actually...quite often online 😂😂😂😂. I'm just very sensitive to things like that hahaha
And yes I knew you were here!!!! Cuz we actually have been talking!
But you weren't "here"
Just like your daughter said! Hahahahaha
And I do remember the things you've shared in dm... believe me...I know what you mean.
I want to say "don't worry...it will be ok"
But that is such a trite saying... Even when we know ultimately it WILL be ok!! But in th meantime, I just want you to know that what you're feeling is completely valid....but at the risk of sounding trite...I KNOW it will be ok. I have faith that more is coming. I want it now and I get impatient...not just for me but I often find myself saying .."Lord...for the sake of everyone involved... Please soon?"
But He knows my heart and He hears and I believe the plan is already in motion and...I'll share a verse with you in dm that He just laid on my heart just now...cuz I wanted to talk to you in dm anyway!!! Hahahaha
We have our meeting today so maybe right after that, you and I can talk in dm too...
Anyway. .thank you for your big reply back! Hahahaha
Hope you like the spinoff post! Lol
Thank you for the tag, I appreciate it!
I'm glad you loved the cover image I've used. It was taken right next to the Umkomaas diving school.
Thank you for your encouragement and support. I don't take it lightly what you say and I am standing on it with you and I also believe it will be okay!
And I know that feeling of being inpatient all too well!! I constantly have to remind myself..."not my time but in His time! Because His time is always the perfect time!"
And "for everyone involved"...Amen to that!!
But as you say, I also believe (I know) He hears and I agree, the plan is in motion!
Don't forget to share that verse with me that you mention here. I've checked the dm but don't see it yet...
Oh...and I really loved your spin-off post. It is so accurate and so true. The bigger chain businesses and restaurants normally just bull-dozer over everything and everyone and it's just cold hard business. Then in times such as these...yes, they take a knock and feel the pinch, but they normally stand a better chance to survive.
But once it's over, they just steamroll ahead again. And the employees hardly ever get treated like human beings, they are just numbers in a moneymaking machine! And as you say, they must take the flack from both ends.
Whereas with the family business and restaurant, there is that warmth and friendliness. There is more personal interaction and caring.
It is like you say, you don't want to see them going under...but it's just different. I've been telling Elmarie on more than one occasion when we hear about some of these big corporations getting into trouble of even going under... I feel so sorry for the employees who will be affected by this, but the main "peanuts" sitting at the top...I often can't get myself to feel anything for them...
May I be forgiven if I'm wrong? It's not that I wish anything bad on them or that I enjoy their misery...not at all. I just don't feel anything for them for I know how they often mistreat other people. So to me, it's more a matter of "when it's your turn it's your turn". It's about reaping what you have been sowing.
It might come back in a different form, but if you sow misery into other people's lives, somewhere, somehow, it's going to come back...
Wow, now I'm going on even more than in my actual comment in your post...maybe I was tired last night...LOL!!
But like you...I suppose you can see I really enjoyed your spinoff post...lol!
Speak to you later in dm today...