Another "season" at work will soon be winding to an end. Have I really been through 41 of them now? The common thread about all of them is all the different people that have come and gone. I always am amazed as each season ends how it can be so noisy, hectic and crazy leading up to the final day and then suddenly one day it's done with just a few hours in between and you're standing there looking around and it all seems so peaceful. The transition complete .... Like the previous four or five months never happened.
And lately as a supervisor, I'll think to myself: "Whew, made it through another one." And at some point or points in the days and months afterwards, you'll look cautiously forward to the next one and literally experience the chills and think that you just can't go through all that swirling craziness again ..... But then the time arrives and somehow you do.
It's funny when everything settles down for the year, you have time to stand back in awe and consider the big picture. It often doesn't seem nearly as big when you're right in the middle of it. It's those moments where you're sometimes forced by circumstances to look just five minutes and/or five feet in front of you and find encouragement knowing that there's an ending somewhere up ahead. At least until you have to do it all over again.
And at times, you'll see the finished product in the grocery store and think: "Wow I had a part in all that!" And then realize just how many other people also had a role in getting it there.
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