The past year of my life has flown by. I don’t remember half of the things that I’ve done, but maybe that’s a sign that my old age is catching up to me.

Lisa has a nice post about taking a time out and looking through her phone to get rid of contacts she doesn’t keep in touch with. It made me start to think about the things I’ve done this past year. I’ve traveled more. Granted, it’s usually either back to NY or to Pittsburgh, but that’s more than I’ve ever done in a year. I went to see Hanson in concert, not once but twice. I’ve become less dependent on the internet, mostly because I was forced to live without it, but even before than, I realized that there was more to life than sitting at a computer most of my day.

I’d like to think that other things in my life have changed. Like, me being less selfish. I think to some extent, it’s changed, but for the most part I’m still a spoiled, selfish asshole. My relationship with my parents isn’t as strained as it used to be. If it weren’t for Ness, I think that I would have given up completely on my family. She’s shown me the importance of having them around and how having a relationship with my sisters is important as well.

Someone once told me that people don’t change and for a long time I believed that too. But I think people can change, one step at a time, slowly at their own pace. We have to change, adapt to different situations, otherwise we wouldn’t survive. It’s impossible to go through life and be the same person. Things happen to change your perspective, your world view, and what you do when faced with those things, makes you change. I think this past year I did a lot of changing. I’m not sure if it’s for the better, or for the worse, but I’m not the same person that I was last year.