Two Years to the Day

6.21.06

My first trip to Nashville was pretty amazing. I was doing what I love, meeting tons of new people who are still in my life, and figuring out that this would be my next step after graduation. Nashville had been a place that I had only dreamed of until that summer. Picture a 3rd grade Bethie with her Dolly Parton biography at the lunch table in Elementary School. I used to write about Nashville in an after school writing class with Ms. Sue Anderson - ironically my only Aggie influence growing up and former President of the Aggie Mom's Federation. Talk about FULL CIRCLE! 

I wrote this postcard to myself as a reminder to really stop and take it all in. Now, two years later, I am living in Nashville and reminding myself all over again...

However, this time the feeling of discovery and self actualization is mixed with little pieces of heartache that flair up every now and then. You never factor in the sacrifice when you are dreaming. You don't think about the waking up - the reality that you are separated from everything you know, the people you love and the person that you were by hundreds of miles, thousands of seconds and millions of footsteps.

But...I can fly the miles, pass the time and take footsteps towards the reasons I came here to begin with. As long as I know that you know that I love you and miss you throughout every step of it.