Teenage Kicks

Mary's got a new job, she's working in the bank.....

If you know the next line to this song then chances are you were a teenager in Ireland in the early nineties.  I came across a box of old tapes recently and as luck would have it I still have an old boom box that can play tapes, which practically classifies it as an antique these days.  Teenage memories abounded as I cleaned bathrooms accompanied by the soundtrack to my youth.

In this modern world of skipping ahead to the song you want, I had forgotten how long it takes to rewind and fast forward.  The guess work of how long to let it run before checking if you were in the right spot.  How is it that I can't remember things that happened last week but I can remember the words to songs I haven't heard in literally decades?  Memories of nights out and concerts and road trips came flooding back.  Today I was physically in New Zealand but mentally I was back in Nijinsky's, The Ambassador, the road to Killarney before the motorway was built, summer time in Germany.  

This isn't a cassette tape, it's a time machine.

  

Nothing changes if nothing changes

We often linger for years in spaces that are too small and shabby for the grandeur of our spirit - John O'Donohue.

After three and a half years in a negative, unpleasant working environment doing a job that offered little challenge and no scope for growth, I finally decided enough was enough and quit my job.  I figured that nothing changes if nothing changes and the end of the year seemed like a good time to draw a line and move on.  My month's notice was spent veering from freaking out that I had made a huge mistake and wouldn't find another job to feeling like a huge weight had been lifted.  Life's too short and all that.  

What am I moving on to?  Well the short answer is I have no idea.  Maybe I will stay in events, maybe I will try my hand at something completely new.  I have decided to look at 2019 as the year of opportunities.  Bring it on!