You Have to Let Go, If You Want to Grow

This is my last week in my current office. My last week of my first job ever.

I’m super-excited, scared and nervous at the same time for what’s next, a new challenge, a new chapter in my career and life. It’s exhilarating, really! But I’m also sad to let go.

You see, my team and I are currently in the birthing process of these two beautiful babies (projects).

Sure I bitch about that particular brand almost all the time, and that particular client is also one of the main reasons why I leave in the first place.


But yesterday when we had initial meeting with the prospective Directors and heard the demo of the jingle, there was this big pang in my heart. It hits me hard in the face, the fact that I won’t be here when we push those babies out and introduce it to the whole world like a proud mama.

If there’s one most rewarding thing of this job, that will be when we produce our ideas. All the hard work, blood and tears we’ve put into it finally come into life.

The other thing is when the commercial finally airs and people start talking about it or when your friends ask, “What’s you’ve been up to lately?” And you proudly say, “Oh! I just finished the commercial for…!”

That’s pure bliss!

And now I won’t be able to feel that bliss fully.

Sure I can totally claim that I did those commercials, but it’s just not the same. I will miss a big chunk of the whole process. All the fighting, the bitching, the drama… It may not the most appealing thing in the world, but it’s part of the journey, the beginning of our babies’ lives and I will miss it.

Honestly, it’s bringing me down a little.

But then again at some point you have to let go, if you want to grow. There will always something you have to let go in order to achieve something more, something better. Hopefully it will all lead you to a greater good.

So that’s what I’m doing right now, trying to let go.