An End and A Beginning

Today brings an end to my two week barnstorming tour of all the places I used to live. It was great to see so many old friends again. These reunions made me realized how poor of a job I have done keeping in touch over the years. In this day and age, it is so simple (not to mention free) to send an email just to keep up to date on old friends, yet we all seem so hard pressed to do this elementary task.

I want to take this opportunity to thank all those people who've offered me hospitality over the past two weeks: Jeremy and Chessa, Jesse, Brett and Miranda, Matt and the rest of the Dugout, Joanna and Julie, Rick, Chad and Crissy, Justin, and Ed. This trip wouldn't have been possible without each and every one of you, and for that I am indebted to you all.

Sitting in the Los Angeles Airport it finally hit me that every person I meet for the next six months will be a new friend. Every face I see is a new face, an unknown, but an opportunity. Chances are that some of the people I meet over the next six months will be people who may end up being some of my best friends or maybe my wife (or quite possibly a mortal enemy), but, what if i had planned my vacation a year later, a month, a day; i may have met a completely differenct set of people. How can anyone deny free will in such circumstances? Fate is bullshit. Our experiences are the the simple circumstances of our decisions. Thus is any decision wrong? Or are the consequences of it merely undesirable (at the present time, given our present perspective). I hope this trip can be my chance to open my mind and take each decision and its consequences for what they are, and learn and grow from each of them.

Here's to new friends, new places, new experiences, and, likely, a new me.

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exumenius on October 9, 2007 from Los Angeles, United States

from the travel blog: Down Under trip Preparation

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