Non(sense)-Duality

When I walked into the office Monday morning, my boss said, “we need to talk.”

I recognized the face. This has happened before.

I have been in a haze for a while now. I’ve also made a couple mistakes these past few months. As I followed him to his office, I said, “no matter what he says, I will agree because he’s probably right.”

I heard myself tell him, at the end of his speech, that I agreed with everything he said. I appreciated his generosity with giving me severance. And that I had no hard feelings.

Punch one.

As if that wasn’t enough, the next day came punch two.

I said a little prayer: Could I endure this time with humility.

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I think I had it backwards.

It was humility that sat across the boss that morning.

The experience came first.

The prayer, after.