The End is the Beginning is the End

Hey. So I'm driving across country. It is a stupid long way. Today while I was driving it finally hit me that I have graduated college. It only took a year for that to dawn on me..... It was a pretty triumphant feeling. Not because I have a degree but because I'm free. So I started shouting and grinning like a fool and relished the thought that the daily trifles of my recent past are ultimately so inconsequential, because they are so situational. Today I decompressed the weight that's been building over my head since Switzerland. August 2009 was the last time I felt this way, insignificant and yet independent and in power. I really need this. My mind is getting set right. I was nervous to leave Richmond, in a more scared and anxious way than I had expected to be, but now that I'm 300 miles away, those feelings are all evaporating. My grandpa told me to only look through my windshield and not out my rear views. It's advice I'm following. But only metaphorically, duh!!!! Pictures etc soon. Next stops: Asheville, Atlanta, Houston, and plenty in between.