However, even as I was staring down the abyss, my family stood by me. I tried to remain strong, but even I could not fool myself: inside I was breaking slowly. Anger became angst, hope traded colours with despair. What happened thereafter can only be described as a maelstrom of feelings and emotions. Although I had been given a month's notice it was not until I started gathering my personal belongings that it suddenly dawned on me that I was going, going from the place where I had worked for five years, going from the comfort of a permanent job, paid holidays and sick time. Unfortunately life sometimes deals one a very bad hand and the self-defence mechanism that we think we have in place to shelter us from this kind of adversity ends up tumbling down like sandcastles in a storm.īy summer 2008 I had been made redundant for the first time in my life. It had been so for some time up until then but there was no reason to suspect that we would lose our jobs.
We were all looking forward to this well-deserved break.Īs the months passed by my company's financial situation became worrying. I was still working in the arts and my family and I had a holiday planned for Malaysia around Easter time we were going to visit one of my brothers-in-law who had made that Asian country his permanent residence.
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