What is Your Career Plan? – DP QOTD

Knowing the month of May is Mental Health Awareness Month, I knew what I was going to write about for the Daily Prompt’s Question of the Day. How I go about it will be different, yet I hope you learn from my strategy.

Looking back through the years, I thought of my failed past relationships. From being too young in the first, too ambitious in the second and being left behind in the last, I felt shattered in a million pieces.

Bewilderment crept in as I wondered why ‘I wasn’t enough’. I made healing my goal.

Afterwards, my life’s career plan shifted to helping those grieving similar fates. So today, I decided to compile a list of songs that summarize my life through some poignant relationships I’ve been in throughout my life.

You’ll be surprised the things you can learn about yourself through songs. And please note that I’ve had sessions with two hypnotherapists – life coaches and a meditation coach, with a medical degree in psychiatry. If you haven’t already, it’s time let that stigma of seeking professional help, go. Trust me, therapy works.

With each song there was a dream before. Whether or not I achieved it will remain debatable. The songs are copulations of some form of ‘what could’ve been.’ At one point in time. the relationships were all good. I believe that, even if the love was one sided, because it was love and loving isn’t wrong.

Healing from the pain is real and it hurts. Matter of fact, it can hurt really, really bad. My two years of healing can attest to that. But I want you to know you can get through that grief. The key is to realize that you are enough too!

You don’t have to be Just Ken…

…and with no regrets, I give you my life in songs. Don’t Cry for Me.

The first, I was too young, and career minded! We split amicably.

Then, I wanted to be someone I wasn’t…

…and had too many Wasted Days and Wasted Nights…

…before I finally said Goodbye to the Yellow Brick Road.

I was free and thought the World had become mine.

Then this happened…

…but it didn’t last…

…because she wasn’t mine. Yet, I still tried…

…and Massachusetts will always be a reminder.

An old friend stepped up, but she didn’t come for the meant to be’s.

She appeared to lead me through life’s dance of compassion…

The Way We Were are now memories…

…and there are no more Bad Thoughts…

…as I can hear the knocking…

…and I can now answer by saying, I’m ready to love.

I know a silly, some may even a say stupid, way of portraying my life. However, each song tells a story. A story of a time in my healing process of breakups that someone else had already lived. Proving to me I’m not the first, nor will I be the last, to hurt. And you won’t be either.

Coming Soon

I’m currently working on two separate articles with my therapists that will come out later this month. One on how to avoid attracting the same type that hurts us over and over again and the other on how not to give up on love after grief.

Hope to see you back for them both and remember, ‘I Am Enough.’

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