Things happen...

Nothing sends you into a tailspin of sheer panic and self-doubt quite like job hunting or moving. I am in the heart wrenching middle of both right now. Despite making good progress, I find myself questioning my capabilities and what I am meant to do. I only took a year and a half off from my chosen profession. Considering that I just graduated a little over two years ago, that's a mere blink of an eye to most. Yet I'm so afraid of being judged for it, like people won't understand that things happen in people's lives to make them need a bit of a breather.

It's not like I am incapable or can't handle the PR industry. I can; I know that I can. I proved myself rather well in school, in my internship, in my first job out of college running my own department. Things happen, though. My dad died, my mom moved, my brother fell into all kinds of problems, I left one relationship just to dive head first into another and watch it crumble over the course of three years...Things happen.

However, I do believe that things happen for a reason. I have to view all of these things that have happened as lessons learned and utilize them to make me a better and stronger person. I have found myself way outside of my comfort zone recently. But I am told, that is how we grow. You can't recognize light without dark and you can't feel well without having suffered.

Here's to all of you in places that you never thought that you would be. Know that you are not alone and that it will be alright, because things just happen...