I’m Moving

So I’m moving. This is certainly an interesting experience. In preparation for my move, I decided to move back in with my parents, to let them have as much time with me as possible while I’m still living in the same state as them.

The next year will certainly be an adventure. I will be living away from my parents for the first time since college. I will have my own money, I will have to deal with my own expenses, I will have to figure out lots of things on my own. I will be living in a city I’ve never visited before, I will be playing tourist for the first few weeks. I will be dipping into my savings for hopefully not too long.

This, all in the face of a recession!

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: pick-up is the best thing that’s ever happened to me. If not for pick-up, I would have never had the balls to go off across the country to live on my own, to finally fulfill my dream of traveling to different cities, living in each one for a little bit, radically changing my environment.

It’s also nice being a hacker. I can do my “work” anywhere I have an internet connection.

I guess the conditions are pretty nice for me to make this move. I’ve saved up money, I’ve got no loans, I’ve got no mortgage, significant other, kids, or pets to tie me down. But I like to think that while it was easier for me to do, relative to those with loans, kids, et cetera, the most important factor is that I went for it.

Go for it. That’s the difference between those who do crazy things and live it up, and those who start sentences with, “I should have…”