A New Chapter -- Closing Continued (Reflection)

(Continued from previous entry)

I did briefly think on a couple of occasions about all the time I spent in that house, and what it has meant to me. But being so hectic with everything and always being rushed while there prevented me from exploring those feelings as much as I would have liked. In the end that's probably a good thing, but it kind of irritated me at the time.

That was only the second house I've ever owned (even though I have purchased several since then for one reason or another). It was a big step for me to buy it and move in there. I was in Fort Wayne for only three years at the time. I was single, and still wasn't sure how long I would be there, or at my job, or...  I just really didn't know yet how my life was going to turn out. I was 32 years old. Now, of course, everything is much different. I'm married, and my life is largely carved out at this point. That house was home base for all of those transitions -- from young adult to adult, and into middle age. I've written that I lived there longer than any other single place, but I've also covered a lot more ground personally than in any other easily demarcated period in my life.

But somehow in all the chaos I got out of there without getting bogged down in the sentimentality of it all. I wanted to reflect on it all more.

That line has been crossed. It's on into the future now. We have a huge pile of stuff to do on the new house, so expect some entertaining posts to come.

DS