I started a new job today. It’s an amazing feeling. The fear, the uncertainty, the challenges of starting something new in the middle of a pandemic. It’s exhilarating. I know I’m odd. But that’s in my nature to get out of my comfort zone and grow.
The last 2 weeks at my old work has been great. People have been amazingly supportive. My boss, being absent and with flaws during my tenure there, has been nothing short of amazing in providing feedback, advice, and well wishes for my growth.
Sometimes when people grow, they grow apart.
You know what grew together and has not grown apart? Us. Me and Dan. We celebrated 6 years anniversary of dating together. It hasn’t been easy.
In those 6 years, a lot of trials and triumphs came for us. Our cultural background and politics are very different. We went through immigration together. I went through graduation and 2 job changes. He went through one. We moved in (and living with another human is hard). We came out to our parents. We got engaged. We got married. We bought a home. We went through a pandemic.
In those 6 years, I couldn’t have asked for a better friend, a better partner, a better lover.
He did make me wait for it. But it all had been worth it.
So here’s to old memories. At work. At home. At life. With the people that I have made fantastic bonds with.
And here’s to many many new beginnings, new challenges, that when we look back, will have become fond memories of how we grew together.
And that would have been I’ve ever wanted from my life when I was a young man sitting by the beach in Vietnam wishing for a better future.
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