Changing of Paths

Well let's see.

I begin a new year, in a new place with a very different life than the last year. I thought I had it all figured out then, a great job, great place to live and over all very happy. I was finally growing up and ready to settle down. But I should have seen it coming. The way my life has always been, it changes when I least expect it. I wasn't ready for it of course, but I always adapt to the change and move forward. This time no different. I am excited for this path that I am on now, and am going to make the best of it like I always do.

This change happened, well had to happen, much quicker than the others. I didn't have very long to figure out the next step. I went back and forth between ideas and couldn't make up my mind. "What do I do," I asked myself almost every minute of every day.  Basically, was about ready to flip a coin and just go. Heads one way, tails the other. (Sounds like a song for Jimmy Buffett or Kenny Chesney.) It is funny how life works however. When you least expect it, a path forms.And it happened in the form of a random lady that I was speaking to just before I left my gym for the day.

She walked in at 4:50pm to work out. She was all happy and cheerful because she was cancelling her membership after her workout to move to Atlanta to start a new life. To get away from whatever it was that was dragging her down. I laughed and said that I was in a similar situation, but didn't have a destination yet. She started asking me questions about what I want to do. Many people have done this but for some reason, I could relate to her because she was doing what I wanted to do. Long story short, she told me about a program her son did and how it has changed his life and he loves what he does now.

I looked into the program and all of a sudden, here I am, sitting in Boston, MA. Attending the National Personal Training Institute. Applied one day, got accepted the next. Applied for student loans, approved that day. It happened so fast and so quickly, that I thought to myself, maybe this is what I am supposed to be doing. How can it work out so quickly and so easily? There has to be some sort of catch or issue that will happen. There always is.

I arrived on New Years Day without a job. It is 3 days later and I have a job if I really want it at a nice restaurant, that works with my hours for my class. Again I think, way to quick. How is everything falling in to place so easily? I guess I shouldn't look too much in to it because it is working.

I am ready to take this challenge head on and to enjoy my life again. I look back at all the different paths my life has taken me, all the different places I have seen, and all the different people I have met.  I do not regret any of it. I am sure people look at me and wonder when am I ever going to grow up and settle down. (I am very sure because I have been told that by people.) My life will settle down when the path I am on settles me down. That is my new answer.