Your Life is Your Own

"The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or blame. The gift is yours — it is an amazing journey — and you alone are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life really begins."

Bob Moawad

Today we celebrate Easter — a time of resurrection, new life, new beginnings.

As my family leaves after a nice weekend together and I am once again alone, I find myself reflecting on the reason I am alone and the significance of resurrection in my own life right now.

My significant other and I are actively working toward big change.  We are tired of barely surviving in the small town we currently call home, and envision much more for our lives than what the area can provide.  He is currently in Texas looking for a job and figuring out a place for us to move into. The truth is, I could find myself moving within the next six weeks... wow!

This is what I have been dreaming of, wishing for, praying about, for so long; it all finally seems to be falling into place.  The obstacles will be many, at least at first, but the benefits will soon outweigh them.  I have been here too long, and been under insane amounts of stress for far too long.  Time to move on!

Being a Chicago gal, this southern living thing will be very new to me, and, I'm sure, quite an adjustment. But oh how I am looking forward to it!  I need a change, and life is an adventure.  I certainly would have had a hard time believing you if you told me twelve years ago that I was going to live in three different states before I was thirty.  I have always thought of myself as a big dreamer, but not a big risk-taker.  When I look back on it, I have surprised myself over the past 10 years.  I can't wait to continue to do so, and to see where this new beginning, the next part of the adventure is going to take me.

— E