Adventures in my own backyard

It’s been a year.

A year I wasn’t sure that I could tackle. I am graduating Thursday and taking my state board exam on Friday. Receiving a literal license into new adventures and avenues to explore. I am thrilled that I have made the commitment. To myself first and foremost. It took almost three years of playing around with it, not taking it serious, heehawing back and forth to finally say, yes, this is the road I am taking.

The final push into that direction and the one year commitment to go to night school for one year despite everything else that I already have going on, came after a conversation with a friend. As we were talking about my desire to start school and take a change in direction in my professional field and a different opportunity to generate income, I said to her:” You know as well as I do that I do not have to do this. Being established in doing what I am doing for a living, why go through the struggle?” Her very simple yet so insightful response was:” Because three years from now you will still feel the way you are feeling about everything right now, everything that has you even considering going through this, yet you would still be here doing the same thing and then you’d be wishing that you would have done it. Whereas if you start now, then you can already be where you want to be in three years.”

It’s been a year.

Life has continued like it always does. There have been babies made and born. Death has come and gone. People have moved on to different jobs and cities. I have met an interesting crop of new people with the passing of this adventure and opened the door to meet many more. I myself have gone through a stupendous growth process. By facing what I avoided for the past three years, I have suddenly begun to master myself. I have finally flung open the doors to my own backyard to explore and foster my own growth.