Today on the radio during my drive to work, I heard this song.  I've heard a couple of times before but I never really listened to it until today because alot of it resonates with things that have been going on in my life lately.

I remember when, I remember, I remember when I lost my mind
There was something so pleasant about that face
Even your emotions had an echo in so much space

And when you're out there,without care
Yeah I was out of touch
But it wasn't because I didn't know enough
I just knew too much

Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
Does that make me crazy?
possibly

And I hope that you are havin' the time of your life
But think twice, that's my only advice

Come on now who do you, who do you, who do you, who do you
think you are, ha ha ha, bless your soul
You really think you're in control

well,
I think you're Crazy
I think you're Crazy
I think you're Crazy
Just like me

My heroes had the heart to live their lives out on a limb
And all I remember is thinkin' I wanna be like them.

Ever since I was little, ever since I was little it looked like fun
And there's no coincidence I've come
And I can die when I'm done

But maybe I'm Crazy
Maybe you're Crazy
Maybe we're Crazy
Probably

These last couple of months have been crazy, stressful, confusing, but they have taught me alot about myself.  I've learned about what I'm willing to do and how much I'm willing to change to go after what I want in life.  I've learned that nothing goes according to plan and that you've got to just learn to roll with it. 

I used to think I knew what I wanted.  A year ago today I was so determined to pursue a career with patents, go to law school and become a Patent Attorney.  But sometimes, you don't know what you really want until someone shows it to you or until you experience something that opens your eyes.  That's why I''ve let go of my old dreams to pursue something more important and more precious to me. 

Tomorrow is officially my last day of working for the USPTO.  Although it was great being able to work for the government and make the world a safer place for intellectual property, something better out there is waiting for me.

Every day people follow a routine.  They wake up, shower, eat breakfast, go to work or school, come home, unwind, sleep, and start it over again.  It’s something we’ve all been trained to do.  We are conditioned from the time we enter grade school to the time we graduate college to follow a schedule.  We need to do this before we can do that.  Unfortunately, love doesn’t follow a timeline

Love isn’t about a schedule, doing things at a certain time, or doing them a certain way.  It certainly isn’t about convenience.  People question what we have because it doesn’t follow what you’ve been trained to think.

You don’t need to be with someone for years before you can really love someone and know you want to commit a life to them.  A couple can be together for years without ever knowing real love, but certain couples can find it in no time at all.  Love, ladies and gentlemen, is relative.  You can know about the people involved or about their pasts, but you can’t know and feel what’s in their hearts, so why pass judgment?

I am a completely logical person, but according to some people we must be “crazy.”  It’s easy to say that when you only think with your head.  But, in a short amount of time I learned to think with my heart and to follow it, without regard to what my head says.  Although sometimes the two do in fact conflict, I mean after all I've been conditioned too, in the end the heart wins.  You can say it’s illogical to do what I’ve been doing, but to that I say it’s even crazier to give up on something this strong.

When it comes to us, I like to think of something I read somewhere:

            Love is friendship set on fire.

It couldn’t be any truer in this case.  People don't realize that the best relationships happen from the best friendships and that we are lucky enough to have found that in each other.  Why waste time in life dating the wrong people and getting your heart broken just for the sake of 'living your life' and 'seeing what’s out there' when you've already found the one person who makes every day better than the last?

I feel bad for those people who don't support us or have faith that we are doing the right thing, because that means they haven’t felt it yet.  They don’t know how it feels to truly give yourself to another person without regret or hesitation and to have it feel about as natural as breathing...