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I finally made it to the southwest! After many years of my hands constantly being frozen and numb from the cold of the midwest, I made my way to Arizona for some warmer weather and new opportunities. Moving is always an interesting thing to do since it allows for complete reinvention. When packing and unpacking, I pared down a bunch of stuff that wasn't aligning with my interests, both physically and mentally. It's difficult to describe the amount of backlog that can accumulate in the brain, such as unfinished projects and half-baked hobbies that ended up not going far. Much of those I ended up writing down and categorizing into three primary groups: things to focus on, things on hold, and things to drop entirely. Things to focus on are the primary goals to achieve in the next 1 to 5 years such as improving my skills with welding, 3D printing, and gardening, whereas things on hold are skills and projects that can be occasionally worked on, but mostly deferred for a later date such as improving my skills on flying, sewing, and making music.

The difficult problem is really knowing who I want to be. Assuming the world really is entirely mine to choose, what do I want to be? I want to address my insecurities as much as possible, especially social confidence so I don't feel as isolated as I was in Cedar Rapids, or at least ramp up a social life faster. In terms of what I want my life to be? I'm not sure. There are a lot of opportunities out there, and I have things to focus on, so I suppose as the way I pend my days is the way I'll spend my life.

At any rate, no matter what happens, life will be extremely different, since changes bring both good and bad, and the only way to tell which is which is to wait and see!