13 Conversations About One Thing<\/a>, if that has anything to do with it…)<\/p><\/blockquote>\nI’ve realized one of the reasons I left Cincinnati is that I was tired of waiting. I kept setting goals to “leave Ohio”, then after meeting that one by moving to Kentucky (yeah its a lateral move, despite what the map says), I set a goal to “leave the midwest after….” At some point I just decided, why wait? After set off on this journey, a friend said to me that happiness is something you decide to go and get.. (Okay I think she actually said it a little differently, but roll with it here.) <\/p>\n
I want the life I’m living to be one of direct and deliberate choice, not a series of accidents that started with some bad bookkeeping in the early 1990s by a guy working in West Carrolton, Ohio.. (Yes, I can trace my presence in the midwest to a specific incident by someone else, hey I was twelve and didn’t have a say in the matter…)<\/p>\n
A barrista, a friend said to me a few moments before I made the decision to leave, “go for it, just don’t get stuck in Nebraska, cuz that would suck.” Honestly what did I have to lose? <\/p>\n
An amazing amount. But I had to chart my own course, to decide to be responsible for where I was going, instead of just riding the pinball paddles of chance. (Don’t get me wrong, it was a high scoring game, but the ball doesn’t decide where it wants to go.)<\/p>\n
Friendships have carried on, my health is good, work has taken a little bit of a step back, but my new job seems saner than the old one (albeit a bit less engaging). Admittedly my insanely amazing skills of managing a lack of money have come in handy although I’m meeting my obligations as far as everyone is concerned.<\/p>\n
So I got tired of waiting and gambled. So far the early cards look really good…<\/p>\n
\nI wonder what my counselor from my final days at Wright State would say? Jo are you out there? I think she’d be proud of me.<\/p>\n
(oops, I wrote this last night, but forgot to click the “Send to Weblog” button….)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Why this entry is coming now and not two and a half months ago I do not know. (Although I did just watch 13 Conversations About One Thing, if that has anything to do with it…) I’ve realized one of the reasons I left Cincinnati is that I was tired of waiting. I kept setting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inmff.net\/peidm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}