I AM NOT SURE WHAT IT IS ABOUT TODAY-- BUT I AM JUST SO HAPPY!
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ya know--- most of you know me... and if you are paying any attention... like i was trying to this morning...I seem to be really really really happy...
I dont know if it was the move... if its my marriage, family, life, freedom, the desire to do anything i want to do.. and do it???
maybe a mix of all of them.. but i have just been feeling very blessed in life..
We recently (last week) moved from the little studio down here into a 2 BR apartment with a girl i met down here..( she was my scuba instructor.. and shes amazing.. not just amazing.. but the type of amazing that when you meet someone you know instantly that you should be friends with them.... ) and that's how it is...
so- we moved into this apartment.. on the boardwalk-- down town on the water... beautiful... love it...
Makes me wonder if we would have moved in here 1st, would my opinion of STX be different? would I be okay with staying down here for a year.... instead of leaving in June??? but when are we leaving?? Well- there are a few reasons..
the very 1st one was.. because I was scared.. something new and different and living where you have never been before, theres a slight amount of "movers remorse" as I call it. ...or maybe " bit of more then you can chew - remorse" so that was the enitial shock... and it was pretty stressfull.. then we relaxed and settled in a little bit..
then it came down to learning how the town / island shuts down in the summer time.. no one really travels down here after june/july and i thought-- well, i wont be able to make a living down here....
then there came the whole "family" thing... I want to start a family.. an be close to danny's family... well in order to have / start our family- there are things that I need to do 1st... I need to set up our retirement.. I need to settle in somewhere long enough to make enough money, that i can actually have insurance.. inorder to do that, i need to build a cliental... in order to do that , i have to sit still for a few years..
so- i am not sure what has to be done.. but I figure this was an AMAZING time in our life.. and a great adventure! I will never be 50 years old and say , "man- i wish i could have moved to the virgin islands when i had the chance..." actually- 90 % of the choices i make.. the deciding factor is just that..will i ever get another chance to do this??? yes/no?? doesnt frankly matter.. cuz.. IM DOING IT!
you are the sum total of all choices you make in life--- i cant preach this enough... if you dont like where you are... CHANGE IT! do something else! it takes nothing! nothing at all.. and as my father always says.. "if there's a will.. there's a man named Bill"..... so what that means to me-- is that you can make anything happen and the only challenging part is to leave you comfort zone- and if you look at it in that light-- that seems like a pretty silly reason not to do something...
even if you make the choice-- an decide its not what you wanted.. or expected.. there is no shame on trying something else..
I feel like the colors of my life are just a little bit brighter today....
The wind is a little more cooler...
and this coffee is... well, amazing.
I wonder how many people I actually impact????
really this is just a blog of my rants/raves... gabbing on about my life and how happy I am... some what of a personal journal that I let me exposed to anyone that really cares... hence the title... is there really people out there that read what nonsense I have to say and take it into consideration??? as if they will wake up tomorrow with an better out look on life??? with a desire to change their life....
i dunno... i guess we'll never know what kind of waves come from our ripples...
-glo
Hey Glo!
ReplyDeleteBelieve me, people do read your rantings - and they are inspiring. I'm at a crossroads in my life currently and your advice to live without regrets is just exactly what I needed to hear!
Glad you are settling in a bit to island life and will no doubt be able to enjoy whatever time left you have down there to its fullest!
Thnx Laura-- I hope that you make all the right choices for yourself.. and if they aren't.. well, at least you took a step... that's the 1st part of it all...
ReplyDeleteYou're incredibly inspirational :) and I love your posts, all of them :)
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