Every corner abandoned too soon, set down with due care.
This is it. Four days until I leave San Diego.
It's been fifteen years since I first visited San Francisco and decided it was a place I wanted to live one day. Now I've got only a few days until I leave to move up there. It's something I've wanted for so long, it's hard to imagine actually going through with it.
I wrote a post recently about what motivates me in life. I've spent a long time chasing after what I expect will give me contentment, propelled by the hope of a better life somewhere down the road. San Diego has been wonderful, but I've always felt I would be more fulfilled living in the Bay Area. Will this happen? Right now, it's what I want. So off I go.
But I think it's fairly obvious by now that the chase is an end unto itself and no longer a means. My true motivation lies in the charge to better my situation, not in any ideal life I have in mind.
In other words, I've always had a hard time sitting still.
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Friday the movers are picking up all our stuff. We're having an open-ended non-party that day; stop by our place so we can say our goodbyes. We'll probably order some food around 6 or 6:30. The major caveat here is that we're going to be busy coordinating everything for the move; so expect us to be running around a lot and not really entertaining. Hence "non-party". My address is still 4454 33rd St.
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I don't expect to have internet access after Thursday. Hopefully I'll get in one more journal entry before then.
It's been fifteen years since I first visited San Francisco and decided it was a place I wanted to live one day. Now I've got only a few days until I leave to move up there. It's something I've wanted for so long, it's hard to imagine actually going through with it.
I wrote a post recently about what motivates me in life. I've spent a long time chasing after what I expect will give me contentment, propelled by the hope of a better life somewhere down the road. San Diego has been wonderful, but I've always felt I would be more fulfilled living in the Bay Area. Will this happen? Right now, it's what I want. So off I go.
But I think it's fairly obvious by now that the chase is an end unto itself and no longer a means. My true motivation lies in the charge to better my situation, not in any ideal life I have in mind.
In other words, I've always had a hard time sitting still.
--
Friday the movers are picking up all our stuff. We're having an open-ended non-party that day; stop by our place so we can say our goodbyes. We'll probably order some food around 6 or 6:30. The major caveat here is that we're going to be busy coordinating everything for the move; so expect us to be running around a lot and not really entertaining. Hence "non-party". My address is still 4454 33rd St.
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I don't expect to have internet access after Thursday. Hopefully I'll get in one more journal entry before then.