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• What I’m Talking About.

  “When we use time as a means of acquiring a quality, a virtue or a state of being, we are merely postponing or avoiding what is; and I think it is important to understand this point.” J. Krishnamurti

  
  I stumbled upon this quote yesterday, and it struck a chord. Mere hours later, I received an email to a small list of close people from Hagar:

  “Friends,

  I am happy to tell you all that I quit my job yesterday (both of them to be exact) and I’m about to start a new chapter in my adult life, one that will hopefully get me closer to where I think I want to be.

  I got a job at The Breslin as a full time prep cook (the person that peel and dice all the onions, potatoes and garlic). Sweet :)
  Since it is a serious pay cut I’m trying to look at it as getting paid for going to school or going to school without dropping 40K. The chef is a well known and highly respected one and she is in the restaurant everyday, incredible. I’m both excited and terrified about this but I know it will be an amazing learning experience and  I’m defiantly looking forward to the learning part.

  Let’s celebrate the beginning of a new chapter…”

  And so on, with a time and place to high five.

  

  For awhile now, all Hagar has wanted to do is cook. And, trust, she’s really good at it. Culinary school has been up in the air, and she was cooking at one of her jobs, but it wasn’t the full time, in the kitchen experience she wanted.

  I’m so proud of her that she’s taken this step. I’m sure it wasn’t an easy decision, as it’s not as financially rewarding, and definitely more of a risk than the 9 to 5 she’s been at for a year. For the small step back in absolute security, however,  she’s taken a giant leap forward in doing what it is she wants to do. And that, my friends, is what I’m talking about.

  Love you, Hagar. Keep living in the now. And keep gettin down with your badself!

  <3

  13 Nov 2009