Rough Morning - Letting Go

I get really sentimental about stupid things.....Here I am changing users permissions from a an application and I kept recieving errors. I looked at the error and realized that it was saying that one or two of the users permissions i was trying to change could not be modified due to thier account(s) no longer being valid. I saw the names one at a time and first was ok with it. Not a big deal right? Just someone who moved on? Well, then it hit me....I realized at this specific location (client) that employees have been let go due to a recent acquisition here. I started to wonder if one or more of those users left due to being forced to go. Some of the employees had been with theis specific company for over 15 years and were suddenly given the option to move to the other side of the country to the new office headquarters or to leave. Some moved. Some left. Dreams were shattered and lives were momentarily torn. I believe like most things in life that if someone's day to day life was shattered from a loss of a job that usually they get back on thier feet allright. Maybe they have money in savings and don't feel the sting at all. Then again, the ones I can't help thinking about ar the poor people who have no plan,no real substantial amount of money in the bank or any back-up job or whatever. and the one's i think about even more are the one's that take it personal, the one's that can't let go. The one's that sit there staring at the wall wondering what value they have left in thier life.

When I think of this I get sad, and I feel bad for them because I've been there. Not so much with the "losing a job" part but with the emotional devastation of feeling like you messed up or that you aren't good enough or wondering what you are going to do next. Now, when I start to think like that I pray and i wait patiently.

5 years ago i would freak out or maybe even run to the nearest payday advance place only to find in 2-4 weeks I was playing catch up more than I was beofre due to that stupid choice....

Life is about choices....where are you going to be in 10 years from now? Working in the same factory doing the same thing you've done forever or are you going to be doing what you like doing and working from a home office;taking the kids to the park and trying to make up time with the wife?....

So much to think about.

Update - 3/11/15 - I just read this. About a year and a half after writing this original post I was laid off from that position. Interested, eh?