it is only 12/20 but i imagine that between christmas and n.y.e. i will be rather busy. this feels as though it might be rather long in length. keep up.
if i'd only known how perfectly amazing 2012 would be. i declared on 12/31/11 that i'd make 2012 my bitch. i feel as though i did. while driving around athens this evening picking up the last of the small christmas items i thought about how i spent over seven years of my adult life thinking i was happy. what i truly was, was simply content. i wasn't unhappy by any means, i just had absolutely no clue what i was missing. after all, how could i?
i spent the first five months of the year learning. by reconnecting with so.cal i was able to find my confidence again. i was able to smile and i was able to grow. for five months we formed a friendship and a bond that will always be a little different. she showed me that i wasn't broken and that i was worthy. for those five months and the friendship that we keep to this day, i am grateful.
by the time spring came to a close and summer rolled in, all of the work that my team and i put into c.a.m. was crashing down around us. our client disappeared and we laid off most of our colleagues who were much more than co-workers, they are friends. when the smoke and mirrors began to be too much, the father of my fave four and i met on a patio to talk about what may lie ahead. over several beers and half a pack of cigarettes, iCapital was born. it would take hours after work and many weekends to get our plans in place. who knew we could own a business?
a week long family vacation spent right next to uncle joey (walking the beach, laying in the sun, and sitting on the balcony for hours every afternoon watching the waves roll in) wrapped the summer. by the end of september i was working from home and spending every spare minute in the jeep. i met a girl that blew my soul wide open. that kind of instant happiness that you can only describe once you've been there. falling in love with nicole has been the most beautiful experience of 2012. while she is everything that i am not, i've never truly had his passionate emotion for another person in 28 years. can't stop smiling.
2012 has been the most successful (both personally and professionally) year of my life.
