Goodbye To You!
My first post...and the countdown begins!
My first post...and the countdown begins!
This ALC experience is something I've wanted to do since before 2008 - a year that changed many things for me, including my own views of HIV/AIDS. Back then, I was quite intimidated about embarking on such a feat. I lived and breathed my job in film & television. I was criss-crossing the country for work and I always felt I could not make any time for myself ... and had to keep my eye on the prize (my career).
Furthermore, I was also feeling lost in my career and living in LA. It was a time in my life where I had to make a decision to commit to making the next step professionally and planting my roots...so I did the opposite. I quit my job, packed up my 2008 Honda Accord and drove cross country by myself....and ran away (to New York).
As I mentioned, this was a year that changed a great deal in my life -- the death of my father....a life-changing diagnosis for me. Adding one more hurdle was not in my bandwidth.
Driving across the country by myself into unknown territory was certainly the path of least resistance versus training for & riding a 7 day ride down the CA coast...but it was also cathartic and something I needed to do at that time.
It's now 2015. Almost 7 years since that dreadful year for me. I'm halfway through grad school for a new career in Clinical Psychology. I couldn't be happier about where I am in my life. I am consciously living my life for me. Nobody else.
I'm choosing to do this ride now as a "ride" of passage. 5 months today...until I cross the finish line! 5 months until I can say "goodbye to you" .... to the Tim Meehan from 2008 who just wants to keep holding on to the Tim from today.
Thank you for all of your support....now and forever!
by Tim Meehan on Tue, Jan 06, 2015 @ 2:17 PM
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