Steph, nor I, can believe it's 2010. That is crazy. It was just yesterday that we were both in Austin, Steph looking to get into a prestigious graduate school and I looking to get financing for one of my films. So much has happened since then, not the least of which we look up and see that 10 whole years have passed.
Steph did go to graduate school, The Actors Studio, and still has mixed emotions about her time there. It was no doubt valuable - she learned from incredible teachers, made some incredible friends, and had an adventure like no other. I didn't end up making my movie, but have parlayed that experience into a pretty good marketing career. We got married in 2001 and I moved to NYC, after Steph's first year. Nine wonderful years (albeit trying at times) of marriage, a four-year old daughter and 1.5 year old twin boys, another cross country move later and everything in between, here we are. Ten years later.
2009 was a tough year. It was a transformative year. I hope that the effects of all of the transformations lead to more positives than not. It is with that that we look into 2010. This is in more ways that just another 'new' year, a new chapter. Our lives will proceed in a new decade (some would technically dispute me on this), making new experiences, growing, transforming more and more into the best versions of ourselves. My hope, more than anything, is that we strive to be better people (because we all can) - better spouses, parents, siblings, sons/daughters, friends, workers - in this new time. The type of people we are shapes our experiences and that, at the end of ten years, is really all we have to look back and reflect on and take with us.
May this year bless each and every one of us in ways that we can't imagine right now.
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