We were two glasses of orange wine deep when the admission finally came. “I want to be with someone whose entire focus isn’t their career,” my friend sighed, after spending the better part of our weekend lunch bemoaning his failed relationships. “I love it when people are ambitious,” he clarified. “But there needs to be an awareness that not everything is about professional success. That there are other, more important, things we should be paying attention to. Like just being around friends and going on trips. Isn’t that what it’s all for?’
His words rang through my head all day, like a Christmas song on repeat in a supermarket in November. As someone who considers themselves fairly career-driven, I definitely fall into the category of someone who pays significantly less attention to the other things in my life.
