But every once in a while, that silly app actually brings perspective into my life. I took this picture a year ago because I thought it was ironic. This sign welcomed me with every turn into my subdivision for the first quarter of YEAR ONE: POST COLLEGE EDITION! I thought it would make a good blog post but every time I started it, I came up short. I didn't have anything to say.
I could divulge and digitally regurgitate all that has happened since that photo. I could weave a delicate tale of woe about this past year featuring themes of loss, love, faith, forgiveness and several other alliterations that, honestly, wouldn't even come close to summarizing what has happened in the last year of my life. I've spent a year challenging how "unfair" the beginning of my adult life began. I wish I could say I spent most of my time looking at where I was, but I honestly spent more time looking at where I wasn't. I wasn't a working actor. I wasn't a professional director. I wasn't getting interviews. I wasn't in the city. I wasn't in New York. I wasn't near my college friends. I was hardly near my high school ones. This wasn't the plan. This wasn't the dream. This was real life. And sometimes, real life sucks.
There's no point to this post. Sure, I've learned more in the past year about being a person than any previous season in recent memory. Still, I have no ribbon of wisdom to wrap up this package of experience. I'm sharing this today with the roughly four people who will read this to "publicly" declare that the sign was right. A rough road was certainly ahead. But the road was tapered with joy, mostly in the form of some of the most amazing kids I've ever met. And tonight/tomorrow I get to meet some more and while I've still got my eyes and heart open to the next adventure, I'm a little more ready to trust the season and take the bumps in stride.
The road is still under construction. But that's cool. It's going somewhere. I'll make sure to write when I get there. In the meantime, I'm gonna learn a few more things.
