Yes, it’s fall again, that time of the year when stuff happens to me. This is the second year in a row I’ve had a job change in early fall.
The new place, also a non-profit, seems like the best fit I’ve had in a while. The people are nice, and quite smart. The staff is small, maybe 12 people in total, and they seem very happy to have me here. I can’t beat the commute: a 15 minute walk from my house which has already come in quite handy.
So my life is chugging along nicely. Why is it I’m waiting for the other shoe to drop?
Waiting for the other shoe to drop – a symptom of the underlying views of our whole culture. Part of the large group of rather discouraging views according to which “no good deed goes unpunished” and “nice guys finish last.” And so on. These all are part of the dynamic of a strictly material world, one in which everthing I have diminishes anything you might hope to have; in which there is not enough. In this world, getting always seems to evoke the fear of loosing something else.
Of course there are also those very fortunate folks who’ve never run up against these limits – people who have a lot, so much they have no sense of worry.
And then there’s another possibility. But I’ll hold back from going all Buddhist on you. 😉