Choose your own adventure

Have you ever realized that life as an adult is ultimately the best children's book idea ever?

As a child I loved to read. I was the kid who was at the library a couple times a week to take a stack full of books home with me. One of my favorite types of book were the ones where you got to choose your own ending, and there were multiple ways you could get there. There was a choice to make at the end of every chapter!

After moving across the country (again) and not having a job lined up (again), I've had a lot of time to think. Just like the books I loved growing up, it's time to choose my new adventure!

Now there are two ways to think about this:

1. That's ridiculous and scary and holy crap crazy! 

Or.....

 

2. It's exciting! There's a whole life ahead of us that's full of choices to make and we get to choose!

I won't lie. As a 30+ woman who has started over already, this really wasn't the way I wanted it to go. I wanted it to be smooth and easy, to just fall into place without a lot of work. Unfortunately it's not going that way. I'm gonna have to put myself out there, have to be an extrovert and meet people and go to brand new places and maybe even throw in an elevator pitch.

Today was the day that I wanted to quit, to go curl up in a ball and cry like a baby because dog-gone-it, I don't want to! Yep, I wanted to be that girl. But then I looked around and remembered that I have a lot of life left to live and if I end up starting over and reinventing myself, what does it matter?!

So here's to living fully and networking like it's my job!