Hindsight is 2020
T, Philadelphia PA
I learned that I was focusing on the wrong things in terms of what I thought was making me happy. And I felt that I was going in that direction, full force and the Pandemic just stopped that for a little bit because we had to stop everything and the things that I thought were making me happy, weren’t. The drinking wasn’t making me happy. I stopped having drinks on October 18th 2020. I live in Center City and I have a one-bedroom apartment and I would go out in the city with my friends and things like that. I got rid of that, got rid of all my stuff, got this boat. I knew nothing about sailing at all. I just started to figure it out on my own: I’ve been working on the inside and I should have the exterior ready to sail this summer. It’s been a big undertaken but I realize the luxuries of living on the boat versus the luxuries of living in a house are completely different and there’s a lot of sacrifices here but the ability to have more free time to do the things that I want to do. That’s what I’ve discovered is new things that I like to do, for example I ran 15 miles today and that’s something I couldn’t ever have done back before 2020. There’s discomforts, right, and you’re always going to suffer, no matter what, like I’m going to suffer if I’m out with my friends and I don’t have money or I can suffer on mile 13 when it’s beating down on me but whenever I’m done with that I can come back to this place and I don’t know what it is but I feel like I’m on the right path and feeling more fulfilled.