Plan Your Happily Ever After...Passover Laughter for your "Happily Ever After"

PASSOVER LAUGHTER

for your “HAPPILY EVER AFTER”

(are they sort of the same?)

If you look closely, leaving full-time work and facing your journey to “Happily Ever After” is a lot like Passover. Just think for a moment:

1. It’s not that matzah is called 'the bread of affliction,’

(although it does conjure up memories of spending long hours in endless meetings at the office)

2. Nor is it the drinking of four cups of wine at the seder meal but you do remember that time the only way you could get through a client dinner was to order another bottle.

3. I don’t think it’s that imaginary guest at the door (and yet it always made me feel like ‘big brother is watching’ because the boss able to access my emails…)

4. Nope, not the ten plagues we enumerate with our pinkies in the wine (but there are a few work colleagues who do make me think of boils and frogs!)

5. But wait, I just thought of the four questions that actually respect individuals (I always was conscious that Stan and Judy needed a little more time with their assignments.)

I won’t go on because by now you’re probably humming “Dayenu” – thinking even if I just mentioned just one or two of those points, “that would have been enough.” So, I’ll get to my point.

Here is how I think leaving full-time work and finding your

“Happily Ever After” is similar to Passover:

Leaving behind a routine:

Just as Passover involves removing leavened bread (chametz) from one's home, symbolizing leaving behind old ways, retirement means leaving behind the daily grind of a job to embrace a new lifestyle. 

Celebrating with sumptuous food and shared memories at your retirement party!

Both Passover (with the Seder meal) and retirement’s farewell banquet often involve gatherings with family and friends to mark this significant transition. 

But mainly for both you and the Jews leaving Egypt, the message focuses on

NEW BEGINNINGS:

The holiday of Passover represents a new period with renewed hope, similar to how retirement signifies a chance to explore new hobbies, travel, or volunteer work. 

Happy Passover,

Loretta

loretta@coachingwithloretta.com

One more laugh for you:

What did the afikomen say to the therapist?

“This year I’d like to find myself!”

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