What If This Isn’t the End?

Twelve days after losing everything, I wrote a journal entry that turned out to be my beginning.

I wrote this twelve days after I lost the job that almost broke me.

Four straight years of being the top performer in my role. Two straight years of carrying a broken system on my back while an incompetent manager undermined me, gaslit me, and made jokes countless times about alcohol after I told him I was in recovery COUNTLESS TIMES.

Every time I asked f…