Growing Up (Part 1)

This isn't a fiction piece; this is a "me" piece. I realize that I'm starting to really grow up and enter into the adult world. First and foremost, I realize that I have less than a year (in all likelihood) before I'm in a foreign country, trying to show people how to live with true happiness and direction. College, serious dating... All in the next few years. I could be married in a decade. A father. It's all coming in the future. Before I know it, it will be the present, so I need to do my best to *be* my best right now, and keep at it. As my favorite Ghandi-ism states, "be the change you want to see in the world."