Goals

This picture is roughly ten years old. It was taken with a 3 mega-pixel camera, which happens to be the same mega-pixels my cell phone has (and it's probably time to upgrade it). The composition isn't great, the subject matter looks fairly boring, no fancy light and to most who look at it see only a car. What do I see? I see a accomplished goal and it makes that 3 mega-pixel picture seem like it's about 30 mega-pixels.

That car was not purchased on a whim, an impulse, or a love at first sight viewing on a dealer showroom floor. Months went by as I first researched the car itself. I built it virtually over and over again as I decided on the options. Test drives. Not to mention planning for if I could afford it and how comfortable I would be making the payments. Finally, the negotiating to not only get the price I wanted, but special ordering it to get it exactly the way I wanted it. Why go through all that, it was just a car, right? Well, it was and it wasn't. To me, it was a goal. This was going to be my first major purchase out on my own. It represented hard work and my personality on the exterior, but deep down it was the goal of successful completion of college and getting my first job.

Fast forward ten years and I've been working on another goal. Well, this bog entry is reminiscing about my first major goal, but really it's in celebration of completing my next major goal for myself which became official today.

(Even though I'm extremely proud of myself for my current accomplishment, looking back on that car, I miss it!)