A Retrospective of my 22nd Year
In 40 minutes I begin celebrating my 23rd birthday. It is with that in mind that I look back on the year that was my 22nd.
It was a year of change, sadness, happiness and everything else that makes up life. Probably the second biggest event was when me and my girlfriend of three years broke up toward the end of '03. It was for the best and I think she and I are better off as friends. It's just that she and I wanted different directions in life and had to let each other go. If you're wondering, yes we still talk every now and then. She just graduated from LPN school and she takes her license exams soon. I wish her the best in all she has planned for her career and her life. I know some man is going to be very lucky with her!
Above I mentioned what was the second biggest event in the last years. "So, Jonathan, what's the biggest," you ask? Well, I think that's pretty obvious: Moving to Fort Wayne of course! I never really thought that I would have the guts to move up here but here I sit, somewhere in Fort Wayne in my apartment (you didn't really think I'd tell you where, did you?). I'll never forget the day that I left my parents' house in Phildelphia, Mississippi to come up here. I was the one shedding tears and my mom was the one telling me that everything would be alright. That's kind of funny because I figured it would be the other way around. It's been a huge adjustment, not having any family and not many friends around, but I think I've handled it well so far. I have plenty of things to keep me sane here: New friends, places to go, a job that I love... I could go on. But nothing beats home and I can't wait to return there soon to visit my family and friends. I miss them terriably.
Professionally this was a year of change too. I moved from a top 40 station in the third smallest market in the country to a hip-hop station in a market that's almost top 100. There were many points during the last year that I was so down in the dumps that I never thought I'd be able to move on. I had been feeling for some time that it was time to move on with my career and I was getting nowhere fast. Then the opportunity to come here came about and I went for it. Now here I am. I'm happy that I'm where I can take what I learned in Meridian and build on it by getting experience in a bigger market and a different format.
I can't really think of anything else "big" that happened this year. Just the usual stuff that makes up life. I've laughed, I've cried (thankfully more of the former and less of the latter), I've experienced pain, been stressed out, all the stuff of human existance. I guess you could say that, aside from the obvious changes, this year has been normal.
Wow, it's now 12:10 AM. Happy 23rd birthday to me! :-)
--Jonathan
It was a year of change, sadness, happiness and everything else that makes up life. Probably the second biggest event was when me and my girlfriend of three years broke up toward the end of '03. It was for the best and I think she and I are better off as friends. It's just that she and I wanted different directions in life and had to let each other go. If you're wondering, yes we still talk every now and then. She just graduated from LPN school and she takes her license exams soon. I wish her the best in all she has planned for her career and her life. I know some man is going to be very lucky with her!
Above I mentioned what was the second biggest event in the last years. "So, Jonathan, what's the biggest," you ask? Well, I think that's pretty obvious: Moving to Fort Wayne of course! I never really thought that I would have the guts to move up here but here I sit, somewhere in Fort Wayne in my apartment (you didn't really think I'd tell you where, did you?). I'll never forget the day that I left my parents' house in Phildelphia, Mississippi to come up here. I was the one shedding tears and my mom was the one telling me that everything would be alright. That's kind of funny because I figured it would be the other way around. It's been a huge adjustment, not having any family and not many friends around, but I think I've handled it well so far. I have plenty of things to keep me sane here: New friends, places to go, a job that I love... I could go on. But nothing beats home and I can't wait to return there soon to visit my family and friends. I miss them terriably.
Professionally this was a year of change too. I moved from a top 40 station in the third smallest market in the country to a hip-hop station in a market that's almost top 100. There were many points during the last year that I was so down in the dumps that I never thought I'd be able to move on. I had been feeling for some time that it was time to move on with my career and I was getting nowhere fast. Then the opportunity to come here came about and I went for it. Now here I am. I'm happy that I'm where I can take what I learned in Meridian and build on it by getting experience in a bigger market and a different format.
I can't really think of anything else "big" that happened this year. Just the usual stuff that makes up life. I've laughed, I've cried (thankfully more of the former and less of the latter), I've experienced pain, been stressed out, all the stuff of human existance. I guess you could say that, aside from the obvious changes, this year has been normal.
Wow, it's now 12:10 AM. Happy 23rd birthday to me! :-)
--Jonathan
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