Full Circle

Sometimes I think life is like being lost in the woods, where you walk and walk and walk; only to find that for all your afforts, you’ve just made a humongous loop and you’re right back to where you started. Only this time, you’ve got the experience of that first trip to help you as you head off in a new direction.

This is exactly how I felt yesterday, when we launched our new site. We sat around all day waiting for orders and when we got one we’d hoot and holler like little kids and do the “order dance” in our socks on the wood floor. And I couldn’t help but get a little nostalgic for the early days, when I was 19, and the same thing happened (except then we sat around for days waiting for orders). But I think of the mistakes I’ve made since then; the things I’ve done right and the things I’ve done wrong. And then I remember that it’s been damn near ten years, and that so much life has happened in that span that the place I am now, even though it looks familiar…can harldy be called the same place in the woods…