This is a big month for me! I will be visiting New York Halloween weekend to look for apartments, so I guess the actual move in date will be mid November or at least before Christmas if everything works out. I am terrified, but I try my best to channel that energy into excitement.
The whole process has been...interesting, to say the least and I have been researching like a mad woman for months now. My poor family and friends have been inundated with emails and questions from me! I really appreciate all the advice they have given.
The most difficult part aside from finances, is not being able to really take action. Everything happens much more quickly up there so it is not as if I can snag an apartment and a job in advance. I have to be ready to strike while the iron is hot, as they say.
There are so many blanks right now but I have to remember that everything works out the way it should in the end. I have no earthly idea what I will discover in all this change--about myself, about my future--but I am of the belief of late that sometimes our success is limited because we are not challenging ourselves more. We can actually do better at something more difficult. I have grown up so much in the past few years but I know that this will help me to fully become my own person. I like to think I have been an independent person throughout my life and that I am a resilient young woman. There are more and more days when I do feel proud about my life decisions. Still, I am striving to be more brave. Perhaps I am being selfish in all of this. Anyway, I will never know until I try and open myself up to possibility.
More updates to come post apartment searching bonanza. Keep your fingers crossed!
