I want to be able to tell you the world changed for me overnight. No such luck. I did of course celebrate the event with a fun night of karaoke followed by Fallout 3 until 4am. Yet now I am looking at the work I have before me and am realizing that all I have changed is the amount of time allotted in my schedule to get work done. My world is still dominated by work.
I know you all loved me standing behind the counter, dishing out advice on books to read, exchanging witty cynical banter, taking your money and leaving you with a smile. Wasn't my bag. Sorry! For every ten minutes spent with a customer I had hours to spend alone waiting for the next customer to arrive. I have never been one to wait patiently for anything. If I want it, I do it.
In having that general philosophy in life, I have also caused myself dynamic layers of hardship. Much like a crow seeing a shiny penny on the train tracks, I didn't stop to look for the train barreling towards me. Just wanted the shiny! I had a few other crows whispering in my ear telling me I should look before I flew in and snatched that beautiful shiny but I didn't listen.
While the four year run we had with Comic Evolution we accomplished an ungodly amount of things, I left behind a marriage, financial security, and the glue that tends to make running a business enjoyable. Strangely I feel like the weight of the world is off my shoulders. I am smiling. I see a light at the end of the tunnel. The options have increased exponentially. Just by eliminating the 12-hour a day lockdown of retail business I am beginning to see what I have been missing all these years.
I will sum up what you can see in my future with some cryptic and random pictures (as I am known for). Unless you are really close to me none of these pictures will make sense. Just know that they mean something to me and are symbolic of what is to come for me. Trust me they will all make sense to you someday.
"If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." ~ Benjamin Franklin
