October 16, 2007

  • well, i'm off to london in a bit. my flight will take off a little before 10pm and then as i slumber on a boeing 777, flying across the atlantic ocean, i will magically awake in england tomorrow morning. air travel is amazing, isn't it?

    and how lucky am i? walking home from work today, i was thinking - it's a darn cool thing that i'm headed to the UK. perhaps it's true, i thought, that good things come to those who wait. or maybe, it's just that good things happen to good people. and then i thought, this is quite the good life that i'm living. i've earned this, after all. i've been through enough. i've put up enough. i made decisions and did the work that brought me here... or so i thought.

    but, as i was gloating about this situation, i also began thinking about how smug of an attitude that seems. this might only make sense to me, but, it just dawned on me that what's good for me might not be the same as what is good for others. i can admit that i have looked "down" on others for the life they are living as i have compared it to my "charmed" life... but who am i judge them? their situation might be perfectly good for them and exactly what they want and need to be happy. we all have different needs and wants.

    so, as i leave DC to embark on this new adventure, i challenge myself to step back, be introspective, and humbly appreciate the awesomeness of this situation.

    more later, from the other side of the pond.