For as long as I can remember, I have had this itch to live in Charlotte. I was convinced that was where happiness lies. I knew just knew this was where I should be. After college, I thought about going, after Peace Corps, every time there was a change in my life, but to no avail life kept pushing me in a different direction. Perhaps if I would have moved after college, when I had small town sensibility it would be different, but as it was I ended up moving to DC area, a place I loathed, a place that I never even wanted to visit. I complained and loathed, this city has no heart. By somewhere around 2.5 years, it started pulling on my heart strings, I built a life, friends, kids, close knit lifestyle. But Charlotte stayed in the back of my mind. I knew that I had to see what it was about. Even though I waver sometimes with what I say, I have done every single thing that I have ever planned on doing. I told myself while at William and Mary working in the MBA program, that I would get my master's in 5 years and have it completed before 30.
I did it.
I checked three life long dreams off my list in one reading intensive, 18 month sweep.
Master's degree. Check
Live in Charlotte. Check
Live with my sister again. Check
(And I vowed to grow my hair out and it is a beautiful curly shoulder length bush)
I learned a lot. A lot I thought I would learn and some I found out my assumptions were completely wrong. I regretted nothing. And God's plan that was whispered in my ear, worked even when I wavered, even when I didn't go according to plan.
I met someone. I learned a lot about relationships and myself. Something I couldn't have learned in DC. I changed my heart. I've been out for me for so long that I forgot to realize how amazing and supportive my family is, and how amazing and supportive I need to be for them. I thought that by having my sister move from my parents' house, I could help her develop, become a woman that, me just 18 months older thought I was. She helped me put a mirror to my life and realize that I was trying to make her into "Keisha" woman, and not just a woman. To me, she is still unorthodox, but as the original unorthodox Pierce sister, I can't complain too much.
So what's next? I'm in the in between stage but greatness can't be far. I bring a sharper mind, a quieter mind, a broader view, maturity, and a small town mind for a big city. I want to secure a job, so I can work on what is really important and next for me.....a family. :) A serious relationship. A life built with someone.
Yea that sounds about right. L'Chaim. God bless.
I did it.
I checked three life long dreams off my list in one reading intensive, 18 month sweep.
Master's degree. Check
Live in Charlotte. Check
Live with my sister again. Check
(And I vowed to grow my hair out and it is a beautiful curly shoulder length bush)
I learned a lot. A lot I thought I would learn and some I found out my assumptions were completely wrong. I regretted nothing. And God's plan that was whispered in my ear, worked even when I wavered, even when I didn't go according to plan.
I met someone. I learned a lot about relationships and myself. Something I couldn't have learned in DC. I changed my heart. I've been out for me for so long that I forgot to realize how amazing and supportive my family is, and how amazing and supportive I need to be for them. I thought that by having my sister move from my parents' house, I could help her develop, become a woman that, me just 18 months older thought I was. She helped me put a mirror to my life and realize that I was trying to make her into "Keisha" woman, and not just a woman. To me, she is still unorthodox, but as the original unorthodox Pierce sister, I can't complain too much.
So what's next? I'm in the in between stage but greatness can't be far. I bring a sharper mind, a quieter mind, a broader view, maturity, and a small town mind for a big city. I want to secure a job, so I can work on what is really important and next for me.....a family. :) A serious relationship. A life built with someone.
Yea that sounds about right. L'Chaim. God bless.
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