Whatcha gonna do when the 12 steps run on you!
I feel the difference. When you change up your environment, it changes your outlook, wipes the grime away from everything so that you see it much more clearly; hits the refresh button on your browser; cleans out the crankiness in your emotional make up.
I was on a crowded bus just the other day coming back from the grocery, and some big black woman kind of barreled down the aisle, and I just smiled in amusement instead of throwing an internal temper tantrum. Clearly things have changed.
One of my co-workers, Bella, has not been so cheery lately. She told me she wakes up in the morning, and just doesn’t even want to come in to work. That’s got to be one of the worst feelings ever, since we spend most of our waking hours at work. I told her she desperately needs to take a vacay. Get out of the City. Do something fun somewhere else.
Know when to lead, learn when to follow, accept when to let go.