Out with the Old, In with the New...Years that is!

It's pretty amazing that another year has passed. Well, amazing on how you look at it. From the big picture, it really isn't too incredible. The only thing that was accomplished was that we, the inhabitants of planet earth, took a ride around the sun. Once. Not to impressive, but generally we do not look at things, especially our lives, in such an enormous perspective. When I take time myself to look back at what I accomplished in the past 365 days, it's pretty impressive to me, but that's because my accomplishments before have not been of the greatest magnitude. I will however remember 2011 as a year of new beginnings. But you know what they say, every new beginning comes from some other beginnings end. Which I know is a lyrics from Closing Time, but it felt appropriate to swipe that from them. I finally graduated college. It wasn't exactly a linear route from straight from high school, but really, who gradates in 4 years now? I'm not trying to put you down if you did do that, I actually applaud you for staying on track. Graduating college was pretty big, but lets face it, in today's world, a bachelors is becoming the new high school degree. So it's an accomplishment I can now check off the to do list, but it really doesn't set me that far apart from my peers. A bigger accomplishment in my mind was finding a job that actually required my degree. This was exciting, and it made me feel that the past 5 years of sitting in classes and paying my instructors and institutions $36,000 I didn't have actually worth my while. Of all my 2011 accomplishments, I'd really have to say that jobs come and go, and you can go get your education when it fits in your life, but when you find that special person that you know you want to spend the rest of your life with the, and hopefully the feeling is mutual, that marrying them is without a doubt the biggest accomplishment of the year. 2011 was a year of endings, I ended my formal education... for now, was fortunate to finish being on the job search before it even started, and ended my life as a single man. It's my hope that when I look at 2011, that I'll be proud of my accomplishments, but realize that they are only the first steps to my ascension to greatness that I hope I am capable of. Only time will tell. Oh yeah, and remember the next time you're buying an airline ticket, remember to tell them "If it's not Boeing, I'm not Going!"