Deliberate. The adjective, not the verb.
I'm getting so excited for our move. SO EXCITED! I'm going to finally spend adult time with my parents (which I'm sure will be infuriating and full of unintended consequences, but also awesome.) They will be a daily (or maybe weekly) part of our lives for as long as we have them. This is a deliberate choice, maybe a crazy choice, but one that I embrace with the little knowledge I have of the actuality of it. I may miss the weather, but life is about people to me, not things.
I'm going to live 0.4 miles away from my best friend, and 3.7 miles away from my sister. I'm going to do real estate. Matt is going to do a business adventure with his best friend. This is a deliberate move. This is a deliberate life. This is a rebuttal to all the times people say, "I wish I could... but I can't." Because the thing is, "There's enough time in your life for everything important." You are given only one life on this planet, and it seems that at about 30% of the way through it, we seem to think that we're on a fixed path with very little room for change. 30%. 1/3. Yet in the first 20%, we spend our time in a constant state of flux (I'm going to be POTUS! I'm going to be a veterinarian! I play lacrosse! I play trombone! I'm goth! I'm preppy!) We settle and seem to think that even though our Great Dreams might be accessible, we shouldn't betray the Good Life we've currently got. If it doesn't turn out, people might say, "I told you so." That's ok. It's ok to be wrong if the flip-side is so much rightness.
So I'm excited.
I'm going to live 0.4 miles away from my best friend, and 3.7 miles away from my sister. I'm going to do real estate. Matt is going to do a business adventure with his best friend. This is a deliberate move. This is a deliberate life. This is a rebuttal to all the times people say, "I wish I could... but I can't." Because the thing is, "There's enough time in your life for everything important." You are given only one life on this planet, and it seems that at about 30% of the way through it, we seem to think that we're on a fixed path with very little room for change. 30%. 1/3. Yet in the first 20%, we spend our time in a constant state of flux (I'm going to be POTUS! I'm going to be a veterinarian! I play lacrosse! I play trombone! I'm goth! I'm preppy!) We settle and seem to think that even though our Great Dreams might be accessible, we shouldn't betray the Good Life we've currently got. If it doesn't turn out, people might say, "I told you so." That's ok. It's ok to be wrong if the flip-side is so much rightness.
So I'm excited.
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