Yay, I've been offered a PM role

I'd been thinking that I wouldn't want a Project Manager role again, thinking that I'd be going ahead and making a difference but I've realised that this isn't going to happen quickly and I need to have an involvement within before I can actually make a big difference.

I'd be really happy to be involved in a small amount of voluntary work to make me feel better in myself, as well as take on a full-time PM gig.

So I had a chat with an old colleague and he told me about a position he had, after a brief chat and coffee I was sold. I got to thinking about being in a PM role again and having the ability to make decisions and that really excited me. I'm now very happy to move on and undertake something with a bit more responsibility as I'm not really enthralled about being the SIM card delivery boy.

This role that I've undertaken has been really good, it's enabled me to gain confidence and improve on most aspects of what the stroke took away. I'm actually really excited to be in a PM role again and can't wait to be involved again.

People can be so thoughtless.

'What makes you special?'

               'So you must have had a small stroke then.'

                                                 'You don’t know how lucky you are.'

These are some of the statements that have come from people’s mouths; “Wow!” people are so thoughtless in regards to how these simple sentences can be taken in a different way than how they’re meant.

I don’t know if I’m necessarily special, the strokes I had caused me to arrest,  paralysed my right side, left me unable to walk, write, eat or drink as well as an inability to talk correctly. So I don’t actually consider that as minor. Lucky! Probably not, but does anyone really appreciate what they have. I believe that I have a better idea than most as life as I did know what it was like to have these things taken away from me.