It’s great how your life can kind of turn on a dime and all of a sudden, you realize when you go to bed that something completely different has changed.
Perhaps this is a small example, but in the space of the last, oh, three hours, the possibility of moving became a very real possibility. My current roommate Michelle, our one-time semi-roommate Brendon, and I all got dinner tonight and somehow the idea came up about moving and as I write this now, it’s looking like a very real possibility that we’re gonna move.
The idea is that our location where Michelle and I are now isn’t ideal. It’s in Hollywood, but kind of in the jankier part of the city. Out of curiosity, we looked at a complex that we both were really interested in and it turns out that there are units available that range in price from cheaper than our current place to just a little more expensive than our current place. And Brendon is looking to get out of his current living situation by June 1st, so…
I dunno. It’s very exciting when something like this happens. When you realize that you have it within your power to drastically change an integral part of your existence. I’m remembered of the days when zefrank’s video blog was still around (aw… forgot how much I miss that). He did an episode centering on the conceit of “Bust That Cycle.” I’m paraphrasing, and perhaps incorrectly, but the general conceit was that we become so ingrained in our daily routines and simply accept our surroundings and the constants in our lives as unchanging that we get stuck in that rut. He advocated for busting that cycle. For doing something in your day that completely goes against what you would do in autopilot (not to get kind of a tie in to Click or anything).
Tonight, it feels like we busted that cycle. The possibility presented itself and it feels like something that would be such a fresh change. Our current apartment is totally fine, but we certainly have begun to feel suffocated. Stifled. Hopefully, we’ll get a new place in this complex that we both love – the location’s so much better, the complex is a lot nicer with a lot of included amenities, and it would just be much more freeing to live there. Our current building has seven units and is surrounded by barbed wire. It’s just a very depressing place to have to live.
Anyway, I’m very excited by this development, and on a broader scale, excited for what this development represents. It represents the idea that change is possible, and that change can come when you least expect it.
