…some kind of way out of here….

there is a hashtag on twitter going right now – #10yearsago – that i used in one of my tweets. basically i said i was 13 and had no idea what i wanted out of life. it’s been interesting to search that tag and see what other people were doing ten years ago.

but that’s not the point. i was thinking about that tag when i was coming home today. it seems that everything that has made me who i am today happened in the last ten years. i know so much development and character building happened from age 0-13, but it feels like everything i can recall has happened in the last ten years.

i think about where i was ten years ago. i was 13. i had been using a computer for a year. i hadn’t even started high school yet. i knew some of the things i wanted, but i didn’t know how i would ever obtain them. i didn’t know what i wanted to do as a career. i was always interested in the big city, and i hoped that maybe i would end up in new york. i calculated that if i went to a 4 year college, i would graduate in 2009. it seemed like forever from then. there were parts of life that i read about on the internet that seemed beyond what i would ever do – simple things that adults take for granted, like going to a really nice coffee shop, or having a hobby outside of what you could convince your parents to let you do.

i feel like despite all the obstacles that have come up and still continue to come up, i am living the life that the 13 year old me would have LOVED. i have achieved a lot of what i dreamed for. i changed everything about my life.

today, i got up at 10 am and made myself and my husband breakfast. i got ready and went to yoga at a studio downtown, and took a class led by my friend. the first friend i ever met in indianapolis, actually. then we sat while we did paperwork and chatting in the empty locked up studio, and went to find some food downtown. we navigated up and down sidestreets and talked about our favorite local places. we sat in a pub next to conseco and talked about yoga for two hours. then i came home to my cats, my nice apartment, my mac laptop and flatscreen tv and i await the arrival of friends to ring in 2010 together.

i find the fact that i’m living the life the 13 year old me would have died for to be very comforting. even though i’m not where i want to be yet, it’s nice to see some progress and take a step back to see what can happen in ten years.

here’s to being a millionare in 2020

Filed under: Uncategorized on December 31st, 2009