{-10 years ago…}

daily mantra:

“your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. don’t be trapped by dogma…which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. don’t let the noise of others opinions drown out your own inner voice. and most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. they, somehow, already know what you truly want to become. everything else is just secondary.” {steve.jobs}

……

-10 years ago i was a different person going in different directions, and living in a different world. you could have found me crossing the snowy mall of the University of Maine campus…sprinting to my class because the closest parking spot was 2 miles away. 10 years ago, i was married, but not to someone i loved. and being married to someone you don’t love is harder than being alone. 10 years ago today, i thought i knew everything i needed to know about life, and that all that was left was finishing college and paying off my student loans, and finding the white picket fence somewhere in between.

-9 years ago…i found out i knew nothing and became a much happier person.

i met the true love of my life and we started on our journey to forever. not necessarily the white picket fence but somewhere in between.

even 5 years ago i couldn’t have imagined where i am now….that i would be living in, of all places, Rumford, Maine…that i would have my own business…that we would own a house {!}, or even that we had two cars that are actually running…at the same time…so we can drive them places. {yay!!!}

10 years, not without bumps in the road or without sadness, but with so much more happiness, fun, and more importantly…contentment than i would have ever imagined.

i wonder what the next 10 will bring. i am sure i will write about it then.