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Three years ago Pre-Pandemic
Modified slightly to obscure some of the details of where I work.
I know it may not look like much to some of you, but for me it doesn't get much better than days like this.
Pre-Pandemic, I worked as a professional woman in the real world. Not every day, but a half a dozen days a year or so.
It was wonderful fulfilling, and deeply felt...every second of it.
I would get up early, probably 4:30 this morning to prep and prepare so I'd show up just looking like another casual professional woman my age, helping out another group of women do good things in the world, ie just women helping women. (PS there is an occasional man on the staff or as clients, but mostly just women.)
By this time, I'd had probably worked closely with over a thousand other women as both other co-workers or as clients, and some men as well.
I hope I come across as a woman who has been doing this kind of stuff for years, nothing phases me and I can handle anything that comes my way, because I live this way everyday and for my whole life. (Which indeed I can, ie handling things without fuss.) But I can assure you every moment from the time I start my prep until I finally take off the last of my make up that evening has been a thrill I never thought I ever get to experience...until I did and then got to do it again and again for years now.
Even three years on, I can feel the thrill of arriving and seeing the women I've worked with, get a warm and friendly hug as a greeting, exchanging all those pleasantries women exchange when they haven't seen each other for a few months or a year as we prepare for our event that day. Sometimes I've been the main speaker and in charge of an event, other times I'm just one of the staff, working to make sure it all runs smoothly or circulating in the crowd of mainly other women helping them with things or explaining or demoing things. ie real work, not just sitting and looking pretty.
But getting to do this as my alter ego Becky, as if I've been a woman all my life, is, for me, just an amazing feeling. Am I flawless, no way, I'm sure folks wonder from time to time, but not once has it ever been hinted at or questioned that something might not be as it seems, ie that I'm just another one of the professional women on the staff.
For me it been an experience that is really beyond words.
However, it all came to a crashing halt because of the COVID pandemic. Will it ever return like it was or will I ever get to this place again, I don't know, but I do feel so fortunate too have been able to have had the experiences. They have infused in ways I never expected to ever feel.
I'm in a re-building year or time as they say in sports, working to get "my Becky" back into a place where she can shoot for the moon again. Having done it before I know its possible, the only real question is can I do it again. Only time will tell.
You all be well on your own journeys, where ever they take you.
Hugs, Becky
Three years ago Pre-Pandemic
Modified slightly to obscure some of the details of where I work.
I know it may not look like much to some of you, but for me it doesn't get much better than days like this.
Pre-Pandemic, I worked as a professional woman in the real world. Not every day, but a half a dozen days a year or so.
It was wonderful fulfilling, and deeply felt...every second of it.
I would get up early, probably 4:30 this morning to prep and prepare so I'd show up just looking like another casual professional woman my age, helping out another group of women do good things in the world, ie just women helping women. (PS there is an occasional man on the staff or as clients, but mostly just women.)
By this time, I'd had probably worked closely with over a thousand other women as both other co-workers or as clients, and some men as well.
I hope I come across as a woman who has been doing this kind of stuff for years, nothing phases me and I can handle anything that comes my way, because I live this way everyday and for my whole life. (Which indeed I can, ie handling things without fuss.) But I can assure you every moment from the time I start my prep until I finally take off the last of my make up that evening has been a thrill I never thought I ever get to experience...until I did and then got to do it again and again for years now.
Even three years on, I can feel the thrill of arriving and seeing the women I've worked with, get a warm and friendly hug as a greeting, exchanging all those pleasantries women exchange when they haven't seen each other for a few months or a year as we prepare for our event that day. Sometimes I've been the main speaker and in charge of an event, other times I'm just one of the staff, working to make sure it all runs smoothly or circulating in the crowd of mainly other women helping them with things or explaining or demoing things. ie real work, not just sitting and looking pretty.
But getting to do this as my alter ego Becky, as if I've been a woman all my life, is, for me, just an amazing feeling. Am I flawless, no way, I'm sure folks wonder from time to time, but not once has it ever been hinted at or questioned that something might not be as it seems, ie that I'm just another one of the professional women on the staff.
For me it been an experience that is really beyond words.
However, it all came to a crashing halt because of the COVID pandemic. Will it ever return like it was or will I ever get to this place again, I don't know, but I do feel so fortunate too have been able to have had the experiences. They have infused in ways I never expected to ever feel.
I'm in a re-building year or time as they say in sports, working to get "my Becky" back into a place where she can shoot for the moon again. Having done it before I know its possible, the only real question is can I do it again. Only time will tell.
You all be well on your own journeys, where ever they take you.
Hugs, Becky