Limbo and Waking from "The Dream" by Eric Huber

Hello faithful readers!

Going into the corporate world. Wow...what an adventure! I have, for a long time, suggested to graduating graphic designers that they try to get some corporate experience. To see how the big dogs structure things down to the most minor detail. To experience the workflow. And while the creativity may be limited, they can hone their technical skills and methods, not to mention having a "big name" on their resume.

However, I myself had never had a corporate job. I was self taught with only a liberal arts degree in art. Mind you, I TRIED to focus on graphic design in college, only to be scoffed at. I had to design my own courses. But, a liberal education trains you to find the answers you seek everywhere.

And I did. I learned how to learn. To find the answers and paths I needed to develop the skills I needed to become what I wanted.

Today the corporate company I work for initiated over 840 jobs eliminations. 140 will be in the offices I work in. We'll know who the axe falls on by tomorrow at 11:00. Part of me wants to be let go. To see what else the world has to offer. Part of me wants to stay and learn.But work is not life. As my father constantly points out to me, "No one looks back over their life at the end and says, 'I wish I had spent more time at the office.'"

Balance is the key. Work. Play. Love. God (whatever you may or may not believe). Family. Life. Travel. Movies. Scrabble. Strip Sorry.

But sometimes we get stuck. Caught in something we cannot escape from even though we know it is not right and doesn't feel right.

Some call it Limbo. I know I do.

However...
The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven
~ Satan - by John Milton.

I was quoted in my high school yearbook as believing this quote. I forgot it until recently.

In "What Dreams May Come," both the extraordinary book and the amazingly beautiful movie (although VERY different stories), the main character's wife becomes trapped in her own "hell" and punishes herself for some assumed "sin."

It is with faith that the next day will bring something better and the help of those who love you, that we make it through our own self imposed "hell" or "limbo." And make NO mistake... there is ALWAYS someone out there that cares about you, whether they actively tell you or not. Ever!

"Never give up! Never surrender." ~ Tim Allen, "Galaxy Quest"

Why am I writing about "Limbo" and "Waking from 'The Dream'"?

Many reasons. And we all have them in our own lives. Change is the ONE constant in life. We can complain and struggle, or we can turn our surf boards and catch what could be the "perfect wave."

Sure, we may wipe out. But another wave will come.

Tonight, in the midst of a sea of doubt, change and turmoil, I caught a perfect wave. And although the wave has passed for the evening, another one is coming. Watch as I turn my board.

"There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being."
- Albert Einstein