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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=450432221-10062003>Hello
people,</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=450432221-10062003>Been hiding in the
undergrowth and peeping out occasionally to see what you're all up to.
Life is busy but generally good for me. I will start posting again soon, have
the guidelines changed much?</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=450432221-10062003>My current challenge
is to try and steer my career back to freelance writing, the thing I really
love, as I keep getting swept up in the corporate current. However there is a
dilemma, of course. I am good at the corporate work, and it pays very good
compensation for activities that are usually not particularly nourishing. I
enjoy meeting new people - I always meet at least one person who will become a
friend, and who makes life at work fun. (This is sufficient to compensate for
the dull, the sad, the lost, and the odd few who are downright obnoxious).
In fact I need to be around people, I am not very well suited to being isolated.
And occasionally there is something that teaches me something new.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=450432221-10062003>I guess it comes
down to the fact that no situation in life is really completely good or bad - no
matter how bad it seems, there is always some small thing that keeps us there.
However, how easy is it to move with the current? Is it really true that
when a situation is right for us, the universe/God makes it easy for us to
follow that path - we just have to accept that what WE want is not really our
path? I can't quite reconcile it, as I know there is growth in some
struggle, but which struggle do I choose? The struggle of making ends meet
and paring down my lifestyle to do the work I really love, or the struggle of
learning to love something that pays well but doesn't offer creative
nourishment, the pay-off being I can then afford to do great things like travel
which nourish me in a different but equally satisfying way? </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN class=450432221-10062003>I doubt that I'll
ever come to a cut-and-dried conclusion. If anyone else has worked this out, let
me know!</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=450432221-10062003>Anita</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><SPAN
class=450432221-10062003>xxxx</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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