Last One on the Blog Train

Have you ever done something in your life that you had been trying to accomplish for a long time? Since starting with a new company; since graduating from college, or high school; since talking to your guidance counselor in junior high for the first time; writing a report at the age of ten on what you wanted to be when you wanted to grow up; or telling your parents where you wanted to live at the ripe old age of five?

I am sitting on a train on my way to accomplishing the very last thing on the previous list. One of my earliest memories is being four or five and telling my mom that I wanted to live in New York City. I don’t know how, at that young age, I knew about NYC or what was in that city for me to want to live there. I believe the only exposure I had to New York was the fact that Sesame Street was supposedly set there. So maybe it’s a life long dream of meeting Big Bird.

Either way, that’s what I’m doing. And for the first time in my life I truly feel like I worked hard at achieving a goal; a dream. Promotions and career shifts and graduations to me always felt like the obvious next step. I never feel like I was completing something, but more like I was becoming bored and complacent and just moved on.

I have a job, a place to live, money coming in, the best group of friends I could ever ask for and then some. I’m really lucky and truly blessed. And its such a good feeling that I hope that everyone who reads this one day, if they haven’t already, gets to this point in their lives.

24 hours and counting. Boxes are packed. Movers arrive at noon. Train is at 4. New York, here I come.

28

So much better than 27.

Hands down.

More later.