Those Last 100 yards...

Back when I ran track and I was part of the 2 mile race, I would get really nervous before the race started but than somewhere within the miles I would get comfortable and feel in my element. I would stay focused but find the pace I needed to make it through. Than as the race would get closer to ending and I would turn that last corner and everyone would begin to cheer and push me to beat my time. I would gain a momentum that I did not even know I had and it would control my legs and before I even really understood, it would all be over. Now I'm in that stretch and everyone is cheering and reminding me that this is it. I feel a loss of control and time is pushing me forward but all I want to do is stop and look around and think about how it all started and the journey that got me to this finish line. I know that I can't just stop and hold on in these last weeks but I want to go out with a blast! I want these last weeks to be as great as all the wonderful weeks I had before.

It feels a lot better now that my future is somewhat clearer. But now I'm starting to picture the walls of this home empty and that moment where you turn around and say good bye. The kind of good bye that changes everything and you know that you can never really go back again. I suppose all in all I am ready and I will be OK, but it does not mean it will be easy.

So here is good bye to another home, more of a home than I have had in years, and good bye to a wonderful family, a family I will miss everyday. Here's to a journey that molded me and made me better and here is to a journey that I have yet to take.

Here we go; with less than two months remaining....