A couple important-to-me milestones are looming on the horizon. Late November marks five years since I finished college and moved to DC. But before that, I'll turn 27 in October.
Both make me stop and think. Five years out of college isn't an important milestone, but I tend to look at things from both directions. For example, I left RIT five years ago. I like to compare that timeframe with the same amount of time before that. So, five years before leaving RIT (and thus, ten years before this November), I was just a couple months into my senior year of high school. When I compare where I was in my life then, in high school, to where I was five years later as I left RIT, there's a world of difference. But in the same period of time on the other side of that placeholder in history - the five years since - I don't feel that I have progressed as much. Sure, I've grown personally, emotionally, and professionally, but I can't help but feel like I should be further along somehow. Read more »
