ARE YOU FACING A SETBACK OR MOVING UPWARDS?

By Matata Mercy

When something happens to you, how do people out there react to it? If you are facing a job loss, most people around you will start having a pity for you.



They will tell you sorry for the job loss. But is a job loss actually  a set back in your life or not?

Do you realize that losing your job could actually be the best thing that has ever happened to you?

 Now that the job is out of your way, you could use this time that is on your hands to explore your creativity and try out the things that you have always wanted to do like writing, composing and recording music or even creating some great art pieces.

 It is true that you actually lost your source of income and the bills are piling up on your neck. You have to pay rent, pay water bills, electricity bills and also feed yourself.

You are asking yourself without a job, how are you going to meet all these obligations? Yes it's true you might not be able to pay these bills but i do believe that you can also live and exist even without paying these bills.

The world will not crash down when you fail to pay these bills.  Instead of focusing on paying these bills, you can focus on the emotional feeling knowing that you are free from the palms of your bosses and out in the open ready to start all over again.

 In my own opinion, i would congratulate some one who has just lost a job because he or she has landed on an opportunity that most people out there are not willing to get into.

 Most people are stuck in jobs that they hate and it is only the paycheck that is keeping them glued to it. This issue is what i would call framing.

The way you look at the problems that you face will determine your reactions to them.

If you frame your problem in a positive way  and expect to have fun and also enjoy what is coming ahead of irrespective of what other people are looking at, then that's the best part of it.

Instead framing yourself in the pity dialogue of poor baby and everyone is feeling sorry for you which will actually not even help you in the long run.

The truth is being sorry for you will not solve your problem but the solution to problem that you desire to have will come if you are willing to cross to the side.

 The side where there are new opportunities that are available, the new possibilities out there that you could exploit and take advantage.

 One of the lessons that i learnt out of life is being able to play with life even when everything around me is just crushing.

If i was asked to choose between having money and having fun in a playful way, then i would rather choose to have fun and be able to play since the fun can actually in the long run help yield money in my life.