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Twenty two had it’s up and downs. Who am I kidding, it was good. Really good. It was about this time last year I started going to the Krispy Kreme gatherings as the first step into the Volkswagen ‘scene’. It’s been a wild ride that’s resulted in getting to know some awesome people. I found myself looking through the pictures off my camera from the last 12 months (all 2115 of them) tonight and there are a whole lot of cars. Amazing how something can become such a huge part of your life in a relatively short time. I think it has to do with, again, the people.

As I have found myself oftentimes lately, I do not know exactly what I want to say. In some respects, I know no more about where I want to be than I did last year. The thoughts of wanting to leave Maryland linger, but are not as strong as they could be because the opportunity is not there yet. I wonder how much more time there is for that opportunity to come up though, there are times when I really feel like I want, almost need, a change. The last year has also brought more reasons for me to stay… More than ever I find myself going back and forth between things, staying in Maryland and finishing grad school being the obvious examples. There are quite a few more where those came from, but that’s the extent of what I want to let out. If there is one thing I have picked up, it is that I need to figure out more on my own than I used to. We’ll see how that goes…

I wanted to say something about perspective because it’s been on my mind a lot, but again, I’m not sure what to say. It seems like it’s been everywhere, but I still manage to loose sight of it sometimes. Broken windows don’t compare to a house under twenty feet of water, for example. It’s been like that all year, the perspective thing and the examples of it that slap you in the face. I still catch myself flippin’ my shit over things I shouldn’t, but nobody’s perfect.