Audentes fortuna juvat

Fortune favours the bold, said Virgil. So here I am, having boldly cast off my corporate lawyer armour by handing in my resignation.

Initially I was scared. What have I done? All those people out there with no jobs, scrounging to make ends meet, and what have I done? My parents were having kittens, wondering whether I'd burned out to the point of no return. My sisters were calling me long-distance, fearful that their older sister had finally flipped out. It all seemed like it was out of control. For a split second, I thought I'd been too hasty, despite the fact that M. and I had been planning this for over a couple of months.

And then, I felt a tremendous sigh of relief pass through my body. This was meant to happen. This is the first step on the road to bringing M. and I together - to love, live and laugh together in the same city, with no more heartaching phone calls, tiresome flights or time zone differences. M. will visit me in September and then I will be in New York, with good luck hopefully in time for Thanksgiving but if not, at least for Christmas, and not just for Christmas.

Where's the rosé champagne? I need to celebrate, I can feel my heart leaping with huge joy. All the time spent over the past year and a half, agonising over my choices in life, are to be no more. I can start planning all the things that I have always wanted to do but only now, finally, can do with him.
"Don't you know the saying? This is the first day of the rest of your life, baby," M. said this morning when I called him. What a life it will be! I am glad I am on my way to starting it. Afterall, Fortune favours the bold and I am ready, excited and thrilled about my new life with M.