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Who I Am Today Is Not Who I Was Yesterday
I’ll be someone else tomorrow.
Driving with friends to a fencing practice more than three hours away, as we talked about the usual people and things in our lives, certain thoughts arose. Things that used to bother me, upset me, or otherwise set me off just don’t anymore.
This is not a bad thing, because who I am today is not who I was yesterday. Giving this consideration and thinking about all the work I’ve done to become the person I am today, I’d like to take a moment to reflect and share some insights.
Setting my childhood aside, when I entered college, I had no direction. I even joked with my father, at orientation, that I would “major in procrastination and hesitation with a minor in bureaucratic red tape.” But it wasn’t long before I decided what to major in. I graduated 4 years later with a degree in theatre (a BA in drama focused on directing and sound design).
Like all college graduates, I had to decide to join the workforce, go on some kind of walkabout, or go to grad school. I joined the workforce. But again, like starting college, I had no direction.
For the next few years, I bounced between administrative and tech support jobs. Then, I got hit by a car crossing a street and spent a year recovering. It was this incident that began to shift…
