Being a flight attendant is not just a job-it's a lifestyle. When I was first hired, someone told me it's like a bug that bites which never leaves your system. After 10 years, the job affected me. Last September was the start of my leave of absence until next April, and I am at the end of detoxing from the cult.
Flight attending takes you many places, whether domestic or international, and escaping reality more than living it. Somewhere in between all this, a sense of what is real is lost along with where you fit in the scheme of things. Unimportant people start to take precedence of lifelong friends and family in the name of fun and flying off to exciting destinations. Soul alignment gets all screwy, especially when single and without much of a care in the world.
I am in the final stages of cleansing my mind, soul, and yes, body from all the sewage the job invaded into my life. Taking a step back for a year has proven beneficial into bringing me back to where I belong: to myself.
It's sad how I allowed this to happen...but it was fun. What a ride! I am so glad it's over and am peacefully leaving it all behind. Nothing is missed. Life now has much richer and more rewarding experiences with true meaning.
Which leads me to ridding myself of unnecessary connections. Why pretend to care when we don't? Or care like we did in high school about who was more popular, when the homecoming queen hardly ever makes it in the long run?
It's all so liberating. Wish this could have happened earlier, could have saved me lots of money and drama!!!
We're heading to NYC on Monday, what's the subway stop for the Manhattan Temple?
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What a great post. I'd always thought it'd be a fun job to be a flight attendant, and I'm sure it is but I'm happy to learn, since I never did go that route, I'm not needing to do the whole detox thing ;) Good luck with it...it's nice when we're able to get back to good.
ReplyDeleteGood luck Metzi! Having a baby is sort of a rebirth as well. I think with each baby there is a throwing away of the old/unnessesary and bring in the new.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping to make it out to New York soon (in the next year). I would LOVE to see you and catch up. I miss you!
10 years is a long time. I think it's a fun job when you're younger, but it gets old after a while. I miss it sometimes, esp. the cameraderie. I don't think anyone can last too long in customer service, really. It's hard to deal with poor treatment over and over again, esp. if you are just trying to be nice and helpful. So did you ditch your FB account to get rid of unnecessary connections??? I'm sad!! ㅠ.ㅠ
ReplyDeleteThanx you guys for all your posts-it wasn't an easy thing to post this-but I had to vent!!
ReplyDeleteI am off FB for now-i will go back. I DID delete the bad eggs off my account from AA. Hee hee.
Metzi-you rock my world!
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