Eendag, \u2019n klompie jare gelede, het ek myself by \u2019n kruispad bevind. Dit was die beginjare van my beroepslewe. Ek het elke oomblik daarvan geniet, maar iewers het die politiek in die werksplek vir my net een te veel geraak. Vir die eerste keer in my lewe kon en wou ek nie meer voortgaan met die werk waarvoor ek so lief was nie. My moermeter was tot sy uiterste gedryf. Ek moes \u2019n blaaskans neem, weg van alles en almal. Ek het \u2019n nuwe seisoen in my lewe broodnodig gehad. Indien nie, sou ek seker iemand of iets te lyf gegaan het. Ken jy ook daardie gevoel?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As ek vandag terugkyk, dan is ek dankbaar dat ek wel die skuif gemaak het, al was dit ook hoe moeilik. Ek het in myself nodig gehad om iewers oor te begin. Hierdie oorbegin het vir my gebeur in die vorm van \u2019n paar maande se wegbreek na \u2019n land ver van my eie. Ek was dankbaar dat ek met hierdie wegbreek nog steeds my verbintenis met hulle kon h\u00ea vir wie ek so lief is en so baie voor omgee \u2013 kinders en jongmense. In my wegbreek-spasie het ek ook die heling ervaar waarna ek op daardie stadium so gesmag het. Die ervaring was \u2019n uiters welkome een. Die persoonlike groei en versorging wat ek in daardie tyd ervaar het, sal ek met geen geld in die w\u00eareld kan vergelyk nie. En glo my, ek onthou dit nog asof dit gister gebeur het. Daar is \u2019n baken van hoop vir my geplaas wat ek vir ewig in my gees sal koester. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Soos die jare aangestap het, het die nuwe uitdagings hulself weer te voorskyn gebring, maar elke keer het die wysheid vermeerder om elke nuwe uitdaging (beroepsgewys) beter te kon hanteer. My geaardheid was maar nog altyd om onvoorwaardelik van myself aan my medemens te gee. Daarmee saam het ek nog altyd \u2019n diepe roepingsbewustheid gehad vir enige werk waarby ek betrokke was. Hierdie roepingsbewustheid het my nog altyd uitgedaag om my alles te gee vir die saak waarby ek betrokke was. Op die harde manier het ek darem ook die noodsaaklikheid van persoonlike grense aangeleer. Maar soms, net soms, oorskry ons daardie grense op \u2019n baie subtiele wyse. Jy het dit nooit so bedoel nie, maar toe gebeur dit en jy bevind jouself weer teen die toue. Hoe nou gemaak? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dis presies wat weer in my geval gebeur het. Die werksywer is daar. Die energie om die werkslading aan te pak is daar en die houding van bring it on<\/span> en maak die bord vol, di\u00e9 is daar. Ek meen maar, dis wie ek is. Ek is mal daaroor om daai \u201caftiekwerk\u201d te doen en die gevoel van satisfaksie te h\u00ea as nog \u2019n projek suksesvol afgehandel is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Di\u00e9 keer het ek dit oordoen. Die gevaartekens was daar. Ek kon en wou nie meer dink nie. Ek kon en wou nie meer doen nie. My liggaam het die noodseine uitgestuur dat ek iewers sal moet afskakel. Met my hart en kop op die regte plek het ek gehoor gegee aan daai noodsein. Daar was \u2019n prys om te betaal, maar dit kon ek aanvaar, want vir die eerste keer n\u00e1 \u2019n baie lang tyd was ek vinnig op pad om myself geheel en al uit te brand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n My periode van rus was hemels. My liggaam het n\u00e1 \u2019n paar dae se rus weer sy ou self begin voel. Dit was die kopdeel wat langer geneem het. Dis darem wraggies \u2019n ander tipe ervaring as jou brein moeg is. En soos eendag baie lank gelede, het ek nog \u2019n keer nodig gehad om \u2019n kreatiewe helingspasie te vind waar ek weer in siel en liggaam kon herstel. Ek is dankbaar vir die fonteine van wysheid waaruit ek hierdie keer kon drink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ek is so dankbaar dat ek nou makliker sal kan nee s\u00ea vir daai ekstra projek of taak wat almal so aantreklik en winsgewend laat klink en lyk, want daardie einste ekstra projek of taak het my amper die verlies van \u2019n gebalanseerde geestesgesondheid gekos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wat was my reddingsboei vir hierdie episode in my lewe? Een van di\u00e9 boeie was (en sal ook voortaan wees) die leuse van my alma mater, Hugenote Kollege: Gebed, roeping en diens. Hierdie leuse, glo ek, het my staande gehou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n En as ek \u2019n voorraadopname moet doen van dit wat ek skynbaar in die proses verloor het, dan het ek vrede daarmee, want ek kies om myself eerste te stel (let wel, nie op \u2019n selfsugtige manier nie). Dink maar aan jouself daar by jou werk waar jy jouself so opoffer vir alles en almal. As jy oorm\u00f4re nie meer daar is nie, sal die einste werkgewer ook maar net s\u00ea: \u201cAi foei tog, wat \u2019n verlies\u201d. En die week daarna is daar iemand anders in jou plek! Wel, ek hoop ten minste dat dit nie in jou geval so is nie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pas jouself mooi op, want niemand anders gaan dit namens jou doen nie.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Post 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