Well 2015 started off with a bang. I got laid off...AGAIN. Just 6 days into the new year. Crazy I know but in a lot of ways, I'm relieved. I didn't feel like this job was working out and I wasn't very happy there.So now what? Things have been lining in the past few months that have lead me to the conclusion that I need to move back east with my family. Honestly, I've been thinking about it heavily for the last 3 years. I've just had to overcome some mental and "physical" obstacles to really "get there".
Where I live now is the longest I've lived any where in my life. To the point where this city became home to me. That was why when my Mom retired, I stayed here.
You get to a point in your life though where the priorities you had in your younger years aren't as important or don't exist.
Maybe some will say I'm running away; but I'm not. I don't have a lot of bad memories to run from. I have great memories here. I just don't feel like I have much of a life here anymore. I spend more and more time by myself. Most of my friends have married and have moved on with their own lives. There isn't anything here that I can't get back home. Plus I'll be able to spend more time with my family. I have family back east who I rarely see as my time back home is so limited. I have cousins, I am Italian after all, who I rarely spend time with. I could be doing things with them, or my sister or my Mom, or my nieces and nephews instead of spending time by myself.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not unhappy. I just think I could be a lot happier.
There are some negatives to leaving here; I am leaving an AMAZING apartment. I will never find anything this nice and affordable! I will miss all the places I've become so accustomed and comfortable with. I will DEFINITELY miss Wegmans!
But weigh that with what I'll be gaining! My family, the doggies, the beautiful city of Saratoga Springs, living near where I grew up, near the Adirondacks, the lakes, the mountains.....who wouldn't go?
