time for movin’ on?
Historically we haven’t stayed anywhere very long. If you can bear the run down I’ll give it for a little perspective.
Sep 1995-May 1996: Moses Lake, WA
May 1996-Aug 1996: Marion, NY
Aug 1996-Spring 1997: Buena Vista, VA
Spring 1997 : Darien, GA
Summer 1997-Fall 1998: Rock Hill, SC
Fall 1998-Spring 1999: Marion, NY
Spring 1999-Fall 2001: Penfield, NY
Fall 2001-Spring 2002: East Rochester, NY
Spring 2002-Summer 2003: Marion, NY
Summer 2003-Summer 2004: Virginia Beach, VA
Summer 2004-Summer 2006: Darien, GA
May 2006-May 2008: Bayan, Kuwait
July 2008-March 2009: White Sands, NM
March 2009-Present: Las Cruces, NM
So since I left home after eleventh grade I have lived 11 different places and moved 14 times. I haven’t ever resented this or wished that it wasn’t this way. I have liked it and sort of thrived on the change and challenge on re acclimating myself. Well, if you look at the pattern you can see that it’s mentally time to start preparing for a move again only we are not. Instead of preparing to go we are working on settling and this is quite a foreign concept to me. I can settle in a place quickly but I have yet to perfect the art of staying. When I don’t like something or a relationship isn’t going 100% how I’d like it to in my mind it’s always been o.k. because I’m moving anyhow. This past few weeks I’ve been struggling with that. I didn’t realize until just this week what the problem really was. Now that I’ve identified it and done a little thinking I believe that I’ll just have to change my perspective and take on the challenge of staying for awhile longer instead of leaving yet again.
