The year in review

In a few weeks, it will be almost a year since I moved up to DC for my first-ever job in the real world. I just re-read some of my entries from the beginning of my blog (which I created the same time I moved here) and was struck at how exciting yet bittersweet I found my first few weeks in the area. New places always invigorate me, but at the same time I was wishing for home. It's funny how little things really change as the time flies away.

I don't feel like it's been a year. When I think about all the experiences I've had individually--it's more like decades! :-) I think I've definitely taken advantage of most of the opportunities, at work and socially, that have come my way, but I still feel like I'm missing out on some things.

Granted, I have only been here one year. That's not a whole lot of time in comparison to the 18 years I spent in Clover or the 4 years at Furman. But I guess when I was a kid and in school I was always waiting for that next step that would propel me into grownup-dom, so I spent a lot of my time thinking about the future and expecting my graduation from college to solve all the little problems and frustrations of being a kid. And now that I'm here...well, I'm not sure that adulthood is really all it's cracked up to be!! Haha. It's liberating in a way and I have become more adjusted to it in the past year, but it's filled with (probably more) little problems and frustrations of its own. Oh, to be back where my biggest concern was whether to play in the front yard or the back yard today...

It's all okay, though. I have plenty of time to master the art of growing up. No reason to be in any great rush at the moment!