Short answer: no. But I don’t know what I really envisioned my life to be one year ago.
I am working in a brand new school district. I did not expect that a year ago. Hell, I didn’t expect that to be the case even five months ago!
I’m still living in the same place. My dynamic with my children is about the same as it was a year ago this time.
But the truth is, I wasn’t really thinking much about the future at a year ago this time. I wasn’t even really thinking about anything that I wanted to accomplish in 2023. So I didn’t really have any idea of what to expect a year ago today.
Things are pretty quiet on the relationship for right now. At this time last year, I was just a few months removed from breaking up with Jessica. We don’t really talk anymore. I shouldn’t be surprised. I mean after all, I’m the one who broke up with her. She had said at the time that she wanted to remain friends, but obviously that wasn’t the case.
Speaking on the relationship front, I’ve started going through my phone and deleting old photographs and old phone numbers that I no longer use. It may sound corny, but for me, it’s a way of letting the past remain in the past, and trying to move forward.
What I am happy about is the fact that , over these last few months, I have taken on something of a “do it while you have the time” attitude. I don’t really have a better turn of phrase for it, so I’m going with that for now.
I guess a good example of it would be how I went to the baseball games in Pittsburgh and in Chicago this summer. It wasn’t terribly well planned, and I didn’t have a ton of money to spend; but I had the means to do it, so I did. It’s something I’ve always wanted to do, but I’ve just found one reason or another to keep putting it off.
The truth is, I’m sick of just putting things off. Sometimes you just have to do things because the best time is right now. It was part of my attitude going to the show that I went to last night.
If you wanna hear more about that story from last night? Click here…
The nature of this blog should tell you that I’ve always been one to reflect. But right now, I find myself thinking more about the future than I do about the past. A week or so back, I posted a blueprint for 2024. I don’t know if I will accomplish all the things that I have on this list. But as the old saying goes, “life is a journey; not a destination”. I’m more excited to see what events unfold around me in the next 12 months as I try to check off that list; rather than whether or not I will actually get that list completed.
Is your life today as you pictured it one year ago?
Is anybody’s?
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