Losing Myself

Look, if you had one shot, or one opportunity

To seize everything you ever wanted.
One moment.
Would you capture it or just let it slip?

--Marshall Mathers

Grizzbabe is officially published! Like in a real newspaper and stuff! Of course, the newspaper happens to be one of my company's publications but that's beside the point. The point is that I'm published, byline and everything!

I'd post the column here but I don't want to violate any copyright laws. Not that I've let that bother me before, but this is my job we're talking about here. I'd hate to get fired because I reprinted my company's copyrighted material somewhere else.

The piece was about my Career Day experience at a local elementary school. After discussing the event with our editor, he said that I could write a column about it if I wanted. I almost didn't take him up on the offer. I didn't want to spend my only day off wrestling with my writing in the neurotic, self-critical way I tend to do. But The Boyfriend gently encouraged me to not let this opportunity pass me by. He was right. I chose to relax on my day off, but I wrote my article on company time the next day. Fortunately, I had the office to myself for a good portion of the afternoon so I was able to create something in my typical over-exaggeration-for-comedic-effect style and the editor seemed to like it.

Where my writing goes from here I do not know. But I've made a vow to myself to take Eminem's advice and seize every opportunity that comes my way, to lose myself in the moment, to grab it, hold on to it and make it mine. I don't want my fear of success to cause me to miss my chance to actually be successful, because who knows if another opportunity will come.