But it's your own fault! Ha! You all knew that I got my bachelor's degree in Therapeutic RECREATION. So what do you want me to do?! NOT have fun at work?
I'll be spending about 90% of my time with inpatient care on the rehabilitation unit of the hospital. That means that nurses, occupational therapist, physical therapists and physicians with scrubs, stethoscopes and pushing wheelchairs are playing bumper cars with me down a very long, very sterilized, very shiny hallway... with fluorescent lights and no windows.
My inpatients in rehab have just had operations, or they're just old and they came in for a tune up. (I have more in common now with Doctah Neaman than any of ya'll! A hippie and a doctor working side by side.)
I'll spend the other 10% in outpatient care. My outpatients are just regular dudes who just want to use the recreation services available.That means I'm off campus, attending to rather important therapeutic program development... (um, ok, you're about to hate me...)
Some of my Job Duties:
- Facilitate art classes, including: painting, film, ceramics, and writing workshops
- Go skiing
- Go horseback riding
- Facilitate swimming/water aerobics
- Supervise the "MOVE" program ("Moving Obese Veterans Everywhere") ha ha! I love it! I get to meet patients at noon every other day and take them on a mile walk.
- Go to the gym
- Plan special events, programs, activities that I come up with.
Um, can we still be friends? Yes? Oh good, because there's more...
I wrote a "I Create My Ideal Job" list before I knew anything about this job. I reviewed the list just this morning, and I'm amazed and speechless. I got it all. Down to the part where I said, "I create that I have the temperature control gauge in my office, and a big window for the sun to come in." I feel hesitant to tell you more, because there is more. But I'll stop talking about my job for today.
Now here's something I've got to say.
A friend recently told me that they sometimes read my blog and just roll their eyes at all that "emily-magic" and "money-coincidences" and all that crazy "creating my life" stuff I always talk about. They're skeptical about it. It doesn't measure up to reality. It just sometimes gets old, they said...
I'm glad I got this feedback because I wondered about that. I mean, come on. This is a hard, cruel, realistic world. Magic-smagic. Magic is nice in day dreams. Creating your ideal life is nice if you don't have three kids, a mortgage payment and bags under your eyes.
(For the friend who said this... thank you.)
All I know is that we've all got to speak our truth. What is your truth? What are you creating is true for you? I can create that magic is unrealistic. Or I can create that (sometimes) magic IS reality...one and the same thing.
Another friend of mine recently got exactly what she wanted in a home. She created it, visualized it, researched it, worked very hard for it for a solid year. On the way, she had lots of "almosts". People persuaded her that she'd never find a better deal than this one or that one. And she almost signed for an almost. But then she grounded herself and again visualized her ideal. She wanted an acre lot for her horse. She wanted fruit trees, and a barn, and chickens in the yard. She wanted a 10 minute commute to work. She didn't want to pay more than she was currently paying for rent. She knew that if she could create it, she could have it.
A very frustrating year later, she got it. I went to visit her new home this summer. Chickens, fruit trees, barn, acre for the horse. 10 minute commute to work, and the exact amount of rent for a place ten times better than what she had.
The scary part for her was accepting it. I oohed and awed over the house, and she simply smiled politely. A few weeks later, she explained to me her process. She had to believe in herself...and believe that she was worth getting everything she wanted. That's the hard part, she said. Does she really get EVERYTHING she wants? Isn't there a limit? Where's the justice in that when so many people are miserable?
I'd love to hear your anonymous or named comments on this subject. I find that most of the people who resent others' successes are the ones who wish their lives were different. For some reason, they resign themselves to thinking they can't live an extraordinary life.
Magic and creating our lives takes hard work sometimes, and it takes a lot of faith. This message isn't for everyone. The first thing I think about are people in war-torn areas of the world who are in survival mode. My heart cries for them. I used to try to live only half a life, hoping that would help me empathize with others who had only half to live too. Until I realized I was doing no one a favor.
For those not living in a war zone, we've got access to creating and living an extraordinary, fulfilling, out of this world fantastic life.
So I get paid to play.
7 comments:
Erik recently found and fell in love with the quote "Jump, and the net will appear."
A friend once mailed me a list I'd written early in Junior High. It was full of life goals, including the type of guy I wanted to marry. I think the only thing on it that hadn't been fulfilled was living somewhere with nothing but a grand piano as furniture. I was never really passionate about that particular goal anyway.
I had a cheesy little love story ideal for knowing how I would know who to marry. It came true. On my wedding day.
I'm not writing any of this to brag, or to say I've worked so hard and deserve any of it.
All I'm saying is, I believe you Emily. I believe.
I think we live in time where it is hard to see the great things that happen in our lives. There are horrific things happening all around us every day. However I know there are also magical things that take place in our lives. I truly believe with hard work and a shift in focus we can all experience the "Emily" magic.
A few thoughts:
1) the hallway is probably not as sterile as you think. When I get home, I try to take my shoes off and leave them at the door and not walk all over my clean floors.
2) the people I have met who have been in war zones amaze me. They do dream of more, otherwise they would never take their pregnant wife and 3 young kids and risk death to travel across and out of Cambodia to reach a refugee camp. And while in the camp, writing letters every day looking for a country to take them, they choose to name their newborn daughter Freedom. To me, that is the best example of someone who envisions a new life and works to achieve it.
3) I also think it's a good idea for the rest of us! To list what we want and then picture it daily helps keep us focused during the hard times on the way to getting it.
Wow, thank you for all of your thoughts. I guess, anonymous, the best thing to do is just for everyone to put in their own name before the magic.
So, everyone needs a little anonymous-magic
amber-magic
ansley-magic...
Hey M
The Lord works in mysterious ways, or at least ways we cannot comprehend. He loves his children and loves to bless them. Those who remain positive, work hard and follow Him, allow Him to bless them even more, and that can truly be magic. After all what greater magician can there be. Why would a loving Father not want to give His children things that would make them happy if He could?
The only catch is some get blessed in this life today, some get blessed later in life and some peoples blessing are stored by the Lord and given to them in the life hereafter. (I haven't figured out why, or which is best yet in my view)
I'm really glad that that He has chosen to give you this desire in your life now. I hope it brings you much joy and gives you many oppurtunites to bring others joy and happiness through your work. After all the Lord not only gives us blessing as 'rewards' but also as stewardships to see what we will do with it and how we will use the oppurtunities.
Yahoooooo!
oh, i for one certainly believe in magic, miracles, and manifesting it all into your life. why not? we're here to write our own lives, design our own stories. why the heck shouldn't we make it the way we want it? so i invite goodness, good people, and fantastic events into my life all the time. sometimes i think we fail to recognize the power we each have in creating our worlds. i know i forget sometimes. but it's there, it's easy, and it only requires a couple of things that each of us has: imagination and faith. why not think big?!!!
i'm so excited for the fun going on in your life emily! thank you for being a miracle!
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