As I take time to reflect on the last 10 years of my life it is absolutely astonishing to me how much things have changed.
Over the new year in 1999 I was working for an I.T. company and, as such, spent the new year on-call for the impending doom that was "Y2K." I didn't really mind though, after all an I.T. gig was a good job for a high school drop out.
In 1999, I lived in a small home in Fairless Hills with a man who I had been dating for a couple of years. We had been living together for about six months and already things were not going well.
At that time though, I really thought that this was the path that my life would take. I would work in an I.T. office and come home everyday to my common-law husband. We would go out drinking on the weekends and come home to fight over stupid little things before passing out.
The next morning we would pretend that it never happened and start the cycle all over again.
Flash forward to today - I have a college degree, a journalism career, a large home in Bristol Township, a husband who doesn't drink, just loves and respects me, I own my own business and best off all - I have the best, most beautiful little baby boy in the world.
So much has changed in the last 10 years. That life I had in 1999 seems so far away. It seems more like something that I read in a book than my own past.
Some things, of course, have remained the same. I still have a friend or two from those days, though we don't talk as much as we should, and I still hold on to the lessons that I learned during that time.
Your life - no matter where it is now - is only what you make it.
If you want a better life, you have to go out and make one. There are tough decisions that have to be made and scary amounts of change to push through, but it can be done.
Everyone has it in them to achieve their dreams.
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