I didn’t go into my day expecting to have such a lovely time, but that’s just the cherry on top of the wonderful day I had!
For context, I’ve been having a crisis about no longer doing animation and switching to something both with a more viable career at the end and something I’m more personally suited to that doesn’t kill my creative joy. (graphic design, by the way.)
Which doesn’t sound like the basis for a nice day, but what ended up happening was calling my mom and getting love and support from the other end. You hear so many horror stories about disappointing your parents, or the silent judgement on Thanksgiving, or whatever. But instead I got reassurance and a sense of peace from her support: not making a decision for me, but instead gently affirming what I was thinking and then telling me I would make a good decision.
Then my wonderful adoptive work mother Laura popped her head around the corner and gave me the nicest pep talk about the same subject! She had overheard and was equally reassuring and made me feel more like I was making the right choice rather than a scary choice.
Then I mentioned that I had forgotten a lunch and Michael came out of his office and gave me a SHOCKINGLY delicious microwave noodle packet. So I got to go to class on a full stomach for a chance! Insane difference.
This evening I got to go to my dad’s presentation on User Experience. He was speaking to the UX club that Reese is a part of, but I was going because duh, it’s my dad, and also he’s an insanely engaging speaker and it’s fun to see him slip into Speaker Mode.
I got to bring Eleanor (of the Orphans) and we had a great time sitting in the back, making doodles and whispering.
I got a Dad Hug after the presentation, got some lovely compliments from people in Reese’s UX club, and then went out for treats with Dad and Reese. I got a lavender shake, and Dad told me that he was happy to pay for another semester of college. (Which is what will happen if I switch, and I think I will.) He was just as supportive of me as everyone else, and it just felt so nice to have the things I was thinking reflected back at me in such a pleasant way.
The support I got from everyone to switch majors was something that I honestly wasn’t expecting, but it just made me feel like I was making the right choice. I’m letting it sit another night to make sure that Graphic Design is what I want to switch into. (When I officially make the switch, I’ll make a post explaining my reasoning in depth.)
Basically, I woke up expecting an average day and instead had such a pleasant one that now I’m sitting writing this, smiling as I think about all the fun times I had today. (Oh, and that’s not the half of it. The Orphans and I are going to try a new mac and cheese bar that just opened up tomorrow.)
WOW. Every time I think I’ve wrung all the drops of sunlight out of my life, it just stretches more and shows me how much more is out there for me to find. I’m so, so grateful. I’m grateful for moving into a new apartment with roommates who are genuinely wonderful sweet people. I’m grateful for my loving and supportive family. I’m grateful for my incredible friends. I’m grateful for my one-in-a-million job.
I don’t think Anna from even two years ago could have foreseen where my life would be right now, and I’m starting to think that I didn’t see it because I was so blinded by the amount of light shining from it.
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