is out on a limb. This was advice I cut out of a magazine many years ago. Yesterday, I spoke to a good friend in California, the same age as me, who after 19 years left her career and is taking the summer off to re-evaluate her life. We had a great heart to heart on aging, on work, on money, and relationships. Some of the best quotes from her were these and are very telling of the age we have arrived at:
My good friend just says I’m dead down there when anyone asks.
I read about a guy who was in a job he hated and he said, the next day I walked into work, quit my job, and kept walking because I’d rather be on a pilgrimage with no destination in sight than crossing the same wrong threshold every day.
I heard an interview with Whoopie Goldberg and the Dali Lama where he said, everyone has to have confidence in themselves.
I had lunch with an ex colleague and I said, I don’t want to sound bitter, and he said, but you do, and so I decided to change what I was saying.
Face it, I don’t like saying it, but we’re dinosaurs.