Jul 03, 2010 09:22
There are certain times in a person's life that you are forced to take a step back and evaluate your current things. It seems that I have been going through one of those types of changes in the past few months. First, it was the knitting retreat. It let in secrets that my life wasn't progressing down the right track in my professional career. I knew if I stayed on that track, I would become someone I didn't want to be. I would lose myself to the man so to speak. People in those positions don't last by two years tops. Plus, again, what would I lose? Tough question to ask, but I know I would lose people in my life that I would rather keep. I would gain some fundage and some great experience. But, who needs that really? Experience is gained any where. Fundage, well, it is nice, but there is a cost and people can be bought. Too bad my price is a bit steep. Of course, can you put a value on family and friends?
As with most anything I do, I do chat with people on 411 when I travel. Some are nice, some look for sex, and some blow you off. It is the ways of the internet land. For about three months, I have been chatting with Chris about this and that. We have had some interesting conversations and he is quite sexy to say the least. I finally met up with him Thrusday. He is a driven person. I knew from our discussions that we have some of the same personality traits. What I didn't know, is that we have almost the same personalities. We both drive our relationships. We both drive ourselves to success in the work place. We deal with people the same way. It was one of the most comfortable online meetings I have had in a good while. We talked a good while about our lives and stuff in them. His partner Mike came home and we chatted some more. Interesting to note, Mike is quite a bit like Nick; calm, reserved, affable. We had a great time chatting and it was interesting to see their relationship. I could have replaced Nick and I in the seats and it would have been the same conversation taking place.
I learned a good deal about them and about me Thrusday. I hope we keep in touch and make plans to see one another again. This is one reason I hate the internet. It brings people closer together and yet at the same time you miss the personal connections that one gains.