Patience? I think I found you.

The last few weeks have been intense...lots of travel downstate and putting in late hours at work.

I asked a friend from college to help out at an event that my office was holding and it was great seeing a familiar face - someone who knows me fairly well and can carry a great conversation. After the event, I took this friend out to dinner as a thank-you for helping and we had this awesome, two-hour conversation on life..and all of its possible outcomes and ways to deal with shortcomings, disappointments, and the unexpected. Being in your twenties seems to be the most chaotic and confusing time period; intriguing people come and go, job opportunities can change the course of one's life in an instant, and some friendships grow stronger as others fade away.  This friend of mine also expressed to me how he has decided to stop thinking about the 'What ifs' and just live - be totally content with the present. This is such a difficult concept for me to grasp but I think I am slowly starting to truly understand it. For a long time, I felt like time was literally slipping through my fingers and that I had to experience many different things in a short amount of time like traveling, working, loving, learning...I could go on for a while but this idea was really not working for me and I found that a job or an experience would bore me quickly and I was always anticipating the next 'thing'.

This just was not working for me - at all. Time to just be content and wait.