Perspective

I’ve been away from home for two weeks with five more to go. I haven’t seen my girlfriend in almost a month. I’m in a shitty hotel with a roommate. My social options include the dive bar next door because I don’t have a car. I’ve got more to read and study in less time than is humanly possible. It snowed last night.

I’m in a city surrounded by gorgeous mountains. I have a job (my fourth in the last year) at a great company which might soon offer me the chance to live in the same city as my girlfriend for the first time in two years. My hotel room has a full kitchen. I’m learning to fly a pretty kickass jet that people pay a lot of money just to ride in. I don’t have to scrape snow off my nonexistent car. I’m healthy.