Sep
2
2009
Serendipity or ‘when it all works out for the best’
I’m a great believer in what will be will be, what goes around comes around and that it all works out for the best in the end. I also believe that we are never given more than we can bear, but that’s a whole different post. Also, I believe that men forgive and forget while women forgive…but they never forget. Ever. Or is that just me?
But today I’m mainly believing in the power of serendipity combined with a dose of things always working out for the best. I’ve had a work ‘thing’ kicking about that’s been eating away at me for a while – I can’t say too much but one of those ‘oh look! An attractive job offer out of nowhere…should I take the money and run or stay and try to negotiate better pay?’ I gave the latter a try and thought I could get it to work. Didn’t work out and, on the day the new job offer all came together I was ‘exited’ by the old job. Kind of a weird feeling but equally it took the ’stay or go’ decision out of my hands. Serendipity, that’s what I like to call it. So much more elegant than ‘I asked for a pay rise and they fired me’….
On a more positive note I have finally found a web designer to overhaul Chez Spud. Hopefully she won’t disappear half way through the project like the first one did, plus she actually bothered responding to my request for a quote unlike some others. What’s so wonderful is that she is first web designer that I approached back in June. She couldn’t help at that point and I was so disappointed, but she helpfully gave me a list of other people to try. I tried, I failed with them all. I went back to her in the vain hope she was working again…no response (she was on holiday). Then, on the day I heavily hearted started researching wordpress designers yet again, she got in touch to say she was working again, her schedule was open and was I still looking for a designer? Serendipity again? I like to think so.
So the sickly looking butterflies are getting the sack. You’re fired! You’re in good company…
Like your attitude! Change is always always happening. In my 50’s I’ve finally stopped fearing and started embracing it. Looks like you’re ahead of the game! Looking forward to your new site design…felt the butterflys were too teenie-bopper, not you. Love the photo, dill?
that is an amazing photo by the way, and i am a firm believer of things that happen… happen just when they are supposed to. and can’t wait to see the face lift.
p.s. thanks for the thoughts today…
I also believe that things happen for a reason and that in the end we wind up right where we are supposed to be. It’s not always easy to see that when we’re in the middle of it. The important part is to take what we learn from the experience and use it!
Congratulations on the new job – it sounds like its all meant to be from the way its all suddenly mapped itself out
And thank you very much for your lovely comments today – really appreciate them
you forgot, when one door closes another door opens
i´m sure great opportunities are just around the corner! love the photo! besos!
We only forget the things we want to forget.. or that it’s beneficial on our part to pretend to forget.. lol.. On the other thing, well it sounds like a right old mix of the good / bad thing.. Poor flutterby’s though.. lol..
I agree completely on the serendipity thing. I had a similar job situation although I wasn’t asking for more money, rather more flexibility. 2 weeks after getting the ‘no’ I was made redundant and found a fabulous new job only a month or so later.
Great news that the butterflies are fluttering away as well. I was never sure they were really you…..
By the way, fabulous shot. Was that taken with a macro lens?
I do forgive from time to time but forget? Never! So it’s not just you
Not sure what happened to my name there !!..
Sorted now hopefully.. lol..
I’m so with you there girl! What’s for you will never go by you – one of the best pieces of advice my lovely mum ever gave me. Almost as good as telling me to go for a big bubble bath the night I phoned her in hysterics, crying down the phone that my Uni career was over, I was going to fail my finals blah blah blah. The bubbles worked their magic and I passed my exams. Woo hoo! Bubbles (in all their forms, including alcoholic ones) hold the secret to life in my opinion! Sorry, I’ll stop babbling on now. Missed you yesterday – it is nice to be missed!
I am also a believer in what will be will be. otherwise we wouldn’t have moved from germany to ireland almost ten years ago! I was really easy, no obstacles what so ever, even cheaper than the changing of places before in germany itself.
but I am a great forgetter! whenever my husband wants an example for an accusation I make like ‘you didn’t tidy your socks either, don’t blame the kids’ or something like that. I can NEVER remember the exact circumstances which he of course wants to know as he doesn’t remember the referred to incident)
and yes, I think butterflies are really great but they don’t suit you.
PS I took two photographs stuck to the ground and even stepping ‘into’ a waterfall.
Thank you for this post. I’m in the middle of a hideous work situation at the moment and need to keep believing it will all work out. And am glad it is doing for you!
xx
i am in love with this photograph. fabulous.
serendipity or not, I was thinking today how often things just happen without our input and when we really want them to happen – they don’t. that job stuff, that’s a sign from above
I hope you’re having a great time at the blog camp! we must organise another one soon
Congratulations on your new job. What a fluffernutter of a company to let you go. GAH! A pox on them, I say. Not that it didn’t work out well for you. But still.
Hey, I did that universal avatar thing you told us about. Obviously, I didn’t do it right.
Serendipity… that’s my current plan for job hunting. The right thing will be there when I need it.
In so many ways I agree with you…especially about women forgiving but never forgetting
(I neeeeed a grudge book lol).
In my low times I do wonder what I did so badly wrong to get what we have been going through, but then I guess that falls into your “never given more than we can bear”. With some of it, I can say it’s paving the way for bigger and better things. With others it’s a lot harder to find the positive, losing my brother for example. I try hard to see the time we had with him as a gift, especially since, statistically, he “should” have died when he was 6 weeks old.
Anyway that’s enough of a ramble about me….superb blog, brilliantly written….fantastic new job! Woohoo!