What a year 2022 was. Graduated from residency. Moved to Santa Barbara. Got married in Colorado. Left medicine. Started this thing.
What you go through puts things in perspective, if you go through it right.
Monday morning my wife and I were set to fly on Southwest Airlines from OKC back to California. If you follow the news, you know what happened. By Monday afternoon we were driving on I-40W in a Kia K5 (pretty sweet ride I must say, thank you Avis), bound for California. Only 36 hours after our original ETA, we arrived back home in Santa Barbara.
As we passed by The Big Texan Steak Ranch in Amarillo, my wife asked, “How are you doing?” Honestly, I was fine; we had a plan, were making it home, and had the means to do so. I felt thankful and content with our choice. She agreed, neither one of us felt overwhelmed by the situation, which was… confusing. Why? We laughed, saying at the same time, we’ve already been through some shit this year. In fact, we’d previously done this exact drive six months prior in a rental van while towing a car. It’s all relative, that Kia K5 was paradise.
So, if you went through it in 2022, I hope it serves you in 2023. It’s really up to us if an experience becomes hinderance or sustenance.
Let us use what happened as another log for the fire.
