REALizing...

First and foremost, I want to take a moment to reflect on where I currently stand in life.  This is almost surreal to me, that I am on the brink of beginning my career and embarking on my next, and very different, stage of life.  It is this time that I have looked forward to and imagined for so long and now all I can think about is how fast it came and I can't decide if I'm more excited for the journey or more worried about how I'll fair in the 'grown-up' world stuffed with responsibility, self-sufficiency and work.  I now empathize with the author of the famous Toys 'R' Us jingle, "I don't wanna grow up, I wanna be a Toys 'R' Us kid," because when I compare my childhood and adolescence to what lies before me, I now truly appreciate how 'good I had it,' as my parents would say.  Hindsight 20/20, proven true as always.

So, one year ago, if you were to pose the question, "Where do you see yourself one year from now?" you would've gotten a simple textbook response of, "I see myself graduated, starting a new job hopefully in my field of choice and possibly thinking about getting my Master's degree."  If you were to tell me that I was going to be living in New York City, 3,000 miles away from everything I've ever known, I would have dismissed you with a laugh and told you that you obviously didn't know a thing about me.

Now I sit here in my apartment, in New York City, 3,000 miles away from all that is familiar to me, and I'm laughing.  I still feels so unreal and un-like me, yet it fits...?  

I'm amusingly terrified to think about January 2010!  Where in the world could I be?  ANYwhere.  Doing? ANYthing.  

At this moment, I can't pinpoint anything that far ahead so my strategy is to follow the open doors.

MORe SooN! <3