Have you every found yourself in the exact same unique situation as you were twelve months previous, yet this time around you feel totally on top of it, breezing through with ease?
As I’ve mentioned previously, I am currently in the process of moving house.
Unlike last year, this time around my housemate and I have found a place with ease.
Also unlike last year, this time around I no longer have a thumping pain in the back of my head, reminding me of deadlines, how much I may mess up, and how much I can’t afford to leave London, leave my job, and move back in with my parents.
This time last year I would see the same road sign every morning on the way to work. There was nothing special about this road sign, it just caught my eye.
Every morning I saw the sign the same thought would come into my head… I’m one day closer to getting kicked out of my flat. I’d never felt so stressed. I’d only recently graduated, and I was juggling two jobs – one of which a brand new ‘high-flying’ position – while desperately sorting through the rubbish to find myself and my housemate a place to live before the ever-impending moving out day arrived.
In hindsight, I needn’t have gotten so stressed.
It’s fair to say it didn’t look particularity good me looking up properties online in my new job, while running out of the office every time my phone rang to “take an important call from the estate agent” – but this was no reason to nearly crumble under the pressure.
If I had simply taken five minutes to sit down and assess the situation I could have found a thousand different angles to look at it from, giving me options and less of a headache.
This is by no means to say that I did that this time around.
I didn’t sit down and assess the situation, but I had already given myself options by having been through it before – exactly a year ago in fact.
Having been stuck in a rut a year previous made my handling of my house move this time around a hundred times more composed. Nothing had really changed in terms of consequences or deadlines, but I’d changed. I’d changed my ability to handle everything that came my way this time around both through primary (my moving house experience last year) and secondary (see below) experiences.
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