"i can see clearly now, the rain has gone..."
after weeks and weeks of an un-san franciscan indian summer, the sun finally broke out this week. it blessed me during the four hours i spent baking under the sun at sunday's lindy in the park, and yesterday when i turned in my grad school application and moseyed back home after a research meeting. and today, when i awoke, it crept into bed with me and danced on my eyelids until i was called from sleepy bliss. lovely. i adore this weather.
-interruption- hrm. i just caught sight of something very odd. the man whose backyard is perpendicular to mine, three houses away, has spent the last 15 minutes running back and forth in his backyard. i thought he was doing suicides but he's not running fast enough. and now, well, now he's doing his mini-sprints to a water sprinkler. this is odd. -end interruption-
i just wanted to put in a note today and acknowledge how wonderful things are. i can't believe how much my life has improved in a year, from when i was a pion in a big corporate law firm, doing loveless work, being completely unhappy with where and who i was in life, to now, when i'm passionate about the kids with whom i work, the papers i'm writing, the research i'm conducting, the direction in which i am heading. and now, when i am in a place where i can fully appreciate my parents and brother, and my friends, and all the luxuries and talents that have been bestowed upon me. and when i'm finally happy about who i am, and feel good about what i'm doing. it's tremendous. so... i don't know. i just wanted to insert a thank you to all my buddies who have been there to pick me up when i faltered, and to call me when they knew i was afraid of being alone. perhaps the hardest part was that they always wore a smile and brought laughter into my life, even when they knew my morose sensibilities could be overwhelming to them, too. i wasn't ever left to fend on my own, or spend a day unnoticed.
i really appreciate that.
Posted by redchilipepper at October 9, 2003 09:32 AM