all for naught

So this is it. This is the end of the damn decade. 


If you had told me, in 2001, right out of high school, that I would go the whole decade without getting my Bachelors, I would have told you to go screw. 


If you had told me I'd go through most of the decade without a girlfriend, I would have thought you crazy. 

If you had mentioned to me that I would gain a ton of weight, lose it, put it back on, lose some of it again, and repeat a vicious cycle, I would have been confused. 


If you would have told me that I would completely destroy my knee and mess up my life in a skateboarding accident, I again would claim you crazy.


If you would have told me that I would only talk to 5 or 6 people from my graduating class at the end of the decade, I would think your were nuts.


If you told me that my best friends would be people that I barely knew in high school and that I'd be living all around Long Island with those same people, I'd kindly ask you to tell your story walking.


If you had said to me that I would have run two full marathons, 6 half marathons, and that I'd be starting a training program for a Half Ironman, I may have punched you.


There is absolutely no way to possibly predict what's going to happen to me in the new decade. I don't know what I'm doing for lunch today, let alone in 2015. I am looking forward to it though. The 2000's have been a decade of ups and downs to the extreme. I like to think that through everything, I've kept a real positive attitude. I would never, ever say I was depressed, but there were definitely some times where I was really bummed. I have always kept my head and spirits high, and that's probably the only thing I can guarantee on doing in the next decade.


Happy New Year