Where the roads begin and end
I know I don't post that regularly but I feel it's an opportune time for me to post.
This year has certainly been a tumultous time for me, with many closed relationships, new friendships, and opened dors.
It goes without saying that the end of my multiyear boyfriendhood has affected me quite deeply. You were my first relationship, my first everything, my first true love. Nothing is perfect and I was always willing to work on things with you. Alas it appears that nothing lasts forever and there are things that not even my love for you could transcend. I was naive to believe that "love could conquer all". Or perhaps it could if it were given back in return but I know better. I now know I am capable of indeed loving someone so completely and so deeply and come out of this knowing that I can in time love the same way again.
Another relationship I had to let go of during this year was my six and a half year relationship with the greasy Golden Arches. It was time to let go and I have learned a multitude of lessons during my tenure with them. I have acquired customer service skills, fine-tuned multitasking and prioritizing TO THE MAX (especially during rush periods), sharpened my team leadership abilities, and perfected my award winning smile and voice! lol. It was time to move on and I appreciate everything I have accomplished between me and the team.
Pushing myself out of a self-inflicted anti-social hole, I managed to meet new friends and rekindle old ones. Kate was the best roomate I've ever had! OK, she was my only roomate if you dont count the ex, and she still totally rocks, yo. I finally managed to reach out and talk to more and more people at school. Although there is one or so that I can no longer speak to EVER AGAIN, the vast majority of fellow science students are terrific and I'm lucky to have met them. I've also gained a renewed appreciation of friends with whom I had previously lost touch. I've been foolish to let such friends go in the past and while I'm sorry for losing touch I'm glad that I still have friends to lean on.
Wth such volatile times come great new experiences. I expanded my boundaries physically, socially, and intellectually. I accomplished with our team not only being able to bike from scarborough to downtown (and taking many pictures along the way) but also pulling together the team PROCRASTINATION COALITION and accomplishing the rollerbladining/biking-a-thon for the Ride for the Heart. I also did a summer subletting situation with Katherine as my lovely sublettor and Kate as my wonderful roomate. I managed to get a summer placement at a Biochem Lab and devoted myself to the Attisano lab for research. This was the year I pushed myself and I'm glad I did.
The closure of relationships, beginning of new friendships, and discovery of new opportunities and talents have been the main motifs of my year 2006. I have been hurt and hurt badly. I left two things that were comforting and was pushed into a world of uncertainty. However with pain and solitude came self-reflection and eventually came peace. With a world of different things came friends both new and refound and a renewed set of experiences to push me forward. I'm older, wiser, and stronger....
I come into 2007 with an inner strength gained from self-determination and solitude, and a renewed sense of self-worth. For goodness sakes I'm a 22 year-old, biochem specialist in the prime of my freaking life! I'm raising not one, not two, but three wonderful neices/nephew, I've become a biker, I am a reblossoming social butterfly, and I will graduate with my Honours Bachelor of Science as a Biochemistry Specialist with research experience under my belt and no debt to tie me down!
My emotional baggage is checked neatly into the past. I've already started on road - nay, the BIKE PATH - to whatever awaits, baby! Who wants to join?
It goes without saying that the end of my multiyear boyfriendhood has affected me quite deeply. You were my first relationship, my first everything, my first true love. Nothing is perfect and I was always willing to work on things with you. Alas it appears that nothing lasts forever and there are things that not even my love for you could transcend. I was naive to believe that "love could conquer all". Or perhaps it could if it were given back in return but I know better. I now know I am capable of indeed loving someone so completely and so deeply and come out of this knowing that I can in time love the same way again.
Another relationship I had to let go of during this year was my six and a half year relationship with the greasy Golden Arches. It was time to let go and I have learned a multitude of lessons during my tenure with them. I have acquired customer service skills, fine-tuned multitasking and prioritizing TO THE MAX (especially during rush periods), sharpened my team leadership abilities, and perfected my award winning smile and voice! lol. It was time to move on and I appreciate everything I have accomplished between me and the team.
Pushing myself out of a self-inflicted anti-social hole, I managed to meet new friends and rekindle old ones. Kate was the best roomate I've ever had! OK, she was my only roomate if you dont count the ex, and she still totally rocks, yo. I finally managed to reach out and talk to more and more people at school. Although there is one or so that I can no longer speak to EVER AGAIN, the vast majority of fellow science students are terrific and I'm lucky to have met them. I've also gained a renewed appreciation of friends with whom I had previously lost touch. I've been foolish to let such friends go in the past and while I'm sorry for losing touch I'm glad that I still have friends to lean on.
Wth such volatile times come great new experiences. I expanded my boundaries physically, socially, and intellectually. I accomplished with our team not only being able to bike from scarborough to downtown (and taking many pictures along the way) but also pulling together the team PROCRASTINATION COALITION and accomplishing the rollerbladining/biking-a-thon for the Ride for the Heart. I also did a summer subletting situation with Katherine as my lovely sublettor and Kate as my wonderful roomate. I managed to get a summer placement at a Biochem Lab and devoted myself to the Attisano lab for research. This was the year I pushed myself and I'm glad I did.
The closure of relationships, beginning of new friendships, and discovery of new opportunities and talents have been the main motifs of my year 2006. I have been hurt and hurt badly. I left two things that were comforting and was pushed into a world of uncertainty. However with pain and solitude came self-reflection and eventually came peace. With a world of different things came friends both new and refound and a renewed set of experiences to push me forward. I'm older, wiser, and stronger....
I come into 2007 with an inner strength gained from self-determination and solitude, and a renewed sense of self-worth. For goodness sakes I'm a 22 year-old, biochem specialist in the prime of my freaking life! I'm raising not one, not two, but three wonderful neices/nephew, I've become a biker, I am a reblossoming social butterfly, and I will graduate with my Honours Bachelor of Science as a Biochemistry Specialist with research experience under my belt and no debt to tie me down!
My emotional baggage is checked neatly into the past. I've already started on road - nay, the BIKE PATH - to whatever awaits, baby! Who wants to join?