Tonight was a completely eye-opening experience. I am a Texas boy plain and simple. I went on a night out on the town with a friend (by that I mean we went to Starbucks and a strip mall), but what was so great about it was the diversity of people we encountered. There were people from all walks of life; families, gangsters, single men and women, couples, and everthing in between, and they didn't look like the life had been sucked dry from them (minus two ladies at Old Navy, but hey you can't win them all). The experience just really hit home for me what I had been missing back in Reno.
I love my friends in Reno and the city itself, don't get me wrong, but I always hated the underlying filth that crept up on the surface from time to time, some will argue that that exists everywhere, and maybe I'll find it here in Houston, but its a little easier to mask when you have millions of people instead of just thousands. The Reno News & Review has a great article out this week that gives one of the most comprehensive reports on the City of Reno that I have ever seen, and I applaud them for doing it. It isn't always easy telling a family member what's wrong with them, but I hope they learn from it, because Reno really is a gem.
As far as things go for me personally there are a lot of good things happening for me. I found out that I may be going back to Wal-Mart (scoff all you want, but I enjoyed my 6 years there), and in August I start school to become a Real Estate agent, which I'm really looking foward to. I was talking to a dear friend last night, about this being a spontaneous mood, but I didn't want to feel stuck like so many others that I know, and a bump in the road at 25 is a lot easier to repair, than looking back on a lifetime of regret in the future. Only time will tell, but I'm normally a pretty good indicator of when things feel right, and this just does. I'm just really bummed I don't get to vote for Kate Marshall for Congress. :)
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