‘Don’t let them get under your skin.’ How did that expression come about? Something so easily said yet so terribly difficult at times to uphold. It’s happened to me of late. Of course I chanted under my breath, ‘don’t let her/them get under your skin.’ Has it worked? Maybe to a point. Tonight however, I’ve realized something important. Surely something I already knew but finally am recognizing on my own.
I’m leaving a job that in all honesty I really like doing. I enjoy most of my customers and many of my coworkers. There is one however, who has gotten ‘under my skin.’ Naturally no names will be mentioned. I will say this. She’s young and pretty and flirty with every male in our office. Suddenly I’ve found myself surrounded by her flirtatious relationships and acts of getting attention. It’s turned into ‘her world.’ It’s gotten to the point that I feel so insignificant that no matter what I do to prove my worth as an employee, it’s overshadowed by this adolescent behavior and weakness of male counterparts. I feel second best. A feeling I don’t like to feel.
I suppose the best thing out of all of this is I am leaving at the best time. I’m getting out of ‘her world’ and beginning a new chapter in my own. Getting this new job just may prove to be a step in my favor…of helping my esteem and getting me back to feeling I am number one…in my own world. In the end, that’s all that matters.
