The World Keeps Spinning, As Do I. . .

Time goes by so fast. It's unbelievable. I started this new chapter of my life almost 6 months ago. Cannot believe I have been living in Charlotte for 1/2 a year already! I remember how ready, but how scared I was to move at first. . . all I knew was that it was a step that I had to take. God, I remember breaking down in VA on the side of the highway and feeling completely helpless. What a great start to my new life I had thought.

Having to step away from everything and everyone that is familiar has made me grow more into myself and what I ultimately want. And that is a great thing. Just great.

Everyone says that the first year out of college is the hardest, but I don't neccessarily agree. . .it's just the biggest SUDDEN transition. No more class, homework, thirsty thursdays (ok...well that last one still exists sometimes). I've done pretty well for myself since moving here I think. I have found a job, even if it's not the one I want I work just as hard, and have met some great people whom I would be sad to leave behind if  I took off somewhere new.

 Funny how a place can grow on you in such a short span of time.


Now I'm standing on the verge of going back to NY for my first visit. Very excited to say the least. I cannot wait to go back and rediscover the familiar yet unfamiliar, knowing that since my dissappearance so much has changed, and will continue to. The world keeps spinning, as do I. . . and while it does I continue on the road to where I want to be.

And to me that is simply beautiful.

I wish life were a movie. . .

My sister and I have been watching movies together lately.  . .more specifically we were watching 'Meet the Robinson's', and for anyone who has seen the movie knows that it is about a young boy who wants to be an inventor. . .he travels through time into the future and he realizes that there are flying cars and moving sidewalks. My sister being only 10 is very much fascinated, and turns to me and says something like: "I wonder why God didn't make this real life." I'm sure I would have wondered the same thing as well at her age, but then again being older I now know that most people don't know how to drive on an actual road with all 4 tires planted on the ground, so flying around? NOT going to happen. EVER. And so that is the reason why.

But it got me thinking that I wish that life were a movie as well. Although I'd like to be in a love story. It would be nice for a change to have someone around who wanted to spend time with me. AND perhaps climb the outside of a ferris wheel to ask me out on a date like in 'The Notebook'. BUT the older I am getting the more I realize that life is and never will be like a movie. Kind of sad. . .but I guess it forces you to just live in reality, and to find your own definition of a movie life OR love in the real world.

I guess that I just hope my sister always stays fascinated in such things. . .I wish flying cars and moving sidewalks still intrigued me.

Ready. . .Set. . .GO!

I thought I'd try this online blog for awhile, because I'm growing bored and need some creative outlet. I don't neccessarily feel that I am ever going to have too much to say, but incase I do, I'll have a place to say it at least. Perhaps, I'll surprise myself- and realize more about myself and my life by putting some of my thoughts onto this page.

This past week has been a nice change of pace, and for that I'm very thankful. I hate when life turns monotonous, but routine is almost unavoidable.

I sometimes feel like an old soul trapped inside a youthful body. . .I can't help but wonder where life is taking me. I always want to be THERE. . .but what happens once I get there? Maybe that's what life is about. The journey always being constant, and the road never being easy. I think I lost my road map years ago. Did I ever have it?!

"Life's a game but it's not fair- I break the rules so I don't care- So I keep doin' my own thing- Walkin' tall against the rain."

Furthermore, these lyrics have been speaking much truth to me.

Troy