"Detours and Setbacks" (and a few bumps along the way) by Westley Nash

This is a thought I had in 2021 whilst I was walking to my new job, and I found myself reflecting on how much had changed. For you see, my world that day was very different to how I had known it in the years before. Back then I had happy family, a solid career and numerous ambitions to chase. A time when it seemed like the big plans I had made were all nicely on track... And yet, here I was in the moment faced with a life that now looked nothing at all as I had imagined it would.
For in this world my family were hurting from the sudden loss of my Father. My hard earned career had been lost due to unexpected redundancy and the plans I had put in place were either left in ruins or erased entirely. And so just looking upon the prospect of this new job had me questioning everything. The whole “starting my new life”, which in turn meant also saying goodbye to my old life was a very powerful and profound moment.
Even back before it all changed I always knew things would never go exactly as I had planned. I’m not naive or delusional and so I expected some setbacks and issues would occur. But I can honestly say that I never once imagined things would look the way they did today. This was not the future I had pictured in my mind... However, if there’s one thing this all taught me was that life just goes that way sometimes, and we can only work with what is. It’s like driving to a destination and meeting upon a diversion. We can either give up and go home or take that detour and hope that we can still make it to where we want to go... Or at the very least find somewhere worthwhile if we can’t.
Best wishes everyone and stay safe.
Westley xx
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