I was here!
In the midst of moving from our Seattle Eastlake office to Kent I took a few minutes to document my space with a few photos before packing up all my stuff. A lot of good memories here. I started with The Talon Group back in February 2010. I spent a good deal of my time in this space during the past 20 months. I want a few mementos.
I’ve learned a lot being back in the city and it’s been great reconnecting with old real estate friends and making a lot of new ones. My previous gig had me on the road for about 6 years. It was a welcome change to be local again. Well, except for the commute on some days.
No more scrambling weekends preparing for a week on the road. No more booking hotels, flights, verifying appointments, and making sure I didn’t forget any necessary equipment. No more 4 to 6 hour drives or evening flights home on a Friday night. No more getting through airport security with my two titanium hips.
I always tell them, “I’ve got 2 metal hips” before I step through the scanner and trigger the alarm. The incessant pulsing loudly beeps, turning heads of concern in my direction. Great… I’m the spectacle of the moment! I went through this so often security in at least 3 airports knew me by sight. But to no avail, I still got waved aside to the containment area.
“The waiting wanding and patdowns will continue
until our homeland is safe and secure!”
I’m out of the office a few days and when I get back to Eastlake
I find this note on my keyboard.
“I was here!”
I’m cracking up laughing. That simple little phrase could mean so many different things.
Ahhh… (with a French accent) “A mystery, no?”
Who was “I” anyway?
My thoughts shift as my internal soundtrack plays:
Time keeps on slippin’ slippin’ slippin’ … into the future. (Steve Miller)
It hits me…
“I was here.” (past tense)
Who’d a thought, already?
Okay, I’m self indulging in my own little private sentimental journey. My flashback rattles off 20 months of events with coworkers and clients. The list goes on and on. It even makes note of a few stormy weather and bad traffic days.
“Life’s a funny proposition isn’t it?” We go go go everyday striving to be in the present, yet we can’t accomplish much without honoring its connection to the past as we gaze into a future we can only anticipate. All at the same time.
Then ready or not life concludes the lesson, moves the point, ends the chapter, and turns the page. This new chapter titled Now… catches me in a fleeting moment wrestling with the old now that just became then.
Wait a second!
I’m in a new now.
It just arrived and its gotta whole new future attached.
It needs to be explored.
I’m thinking; “That’s awesomely awesome!”
“I was. I am. I will.”
My cellphone rings a direct twitter message and my little daydream disappears.
I’m back, I’m present, I’m packing…
“I was here.”
Originally posted 10/7/2011 on the Activerain.com network.
7 months ago