the wisdom of my elders

[twilight33]

In our guest room is a sampler my great grandmother cross-stitched well over 50 years ago of 'Today is the first day of the rest of your life' It has a different meaning for me in a today that is less than an hour old it has at any point before.

I went through commencement expecting it to be the standard 'end of school, beginning of a new life of opportunity, yadda yadda'... and it was. It was also a prism through which I took a look at the rest of my life and was a little surprised at the spectrum it revealed.

Time for some overhaul & rebalancing along the lines of when I packed up life in 98 & went back to school in 03. Risk and potential failure are substantially less scary now that I know for certain what's at the core.

Comments

So what's your next move?

[nlguy.livejournal.com]

Grad school? New career? A move back to Sac? ;)

Re: So what's your next move?

[twilight33]

I'd rule out that third option, even my mom left her house of 30+ years in Sacramento to move up here :)

[sunneyone.livejournal.com]

i wish i had the ability to see the depth you do.

[twilight33]

Anthropology & studying native cultures has helped substantially with that, I have a completely different outlook than I did when I went back to school two years ago mostly because of my minor :)

[sunneyone.livejournal.com]

that's cool. :)
i honestly think you're one of those people who are more spiritually evolved.