A change could do you good... could it do me good, too?

nobody@vox.com(LT) — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:03:00 -0800

I am a chronic over-thinker. I spend so much time pouring over things and perfecting them. I want it all to work just right. I want it all to be logical and practical. It’s almost OCD at times. Not much of a shock that I was described as, “precocious… very precocious” at age 2, is it?

So, the Change: I am moving to LA (well, Manhattan Beach). Yee-haw, right? Sweatshirt weather almost 24/7, beach (ocean air!! Surf!) a block from my stoop (potentially) and a change. Change, I’ve heard, can do a person good.

For me to reconcile this change (which for anyone who knows me, is huge – I am a born and bred NorCal girl) I have to run a cost/benefit analysis of everything that will/can/has even the slightest potential to change as a result of this relocation and decide if it’s a pro or a con for my direction in life.

Sample Problem: moving will add commute issues.

Result: Who gives a shit? I live at the beach.

I have probably thought way too much about this. I’ve gone over everything from commute/work issues to how to most effectively pack things such that anything I don’t need will end up in storage and not in my new residence (which I have decided will be a simplified version of my life now, starting with no TV). Crazy.

I’m done with the pro/con stuff now. It’s too much. To tackle such a dynamic thing as moving with a pro/con list could drive a person mad. So I’m deciding that change is good. I’ve been me for 25 years and for this 25 years the times when I felt the most satisfaction with where I was occurred as a result of me taking myself out of my comfort zone and putting myself into situations where I have to adapt to things.

So, I’m moving to Southern California. I will be trading my more-brown-than-blonde tresses for uber-hilighted ones, I will begin to refer to freeways as, “THE 101” and, “THE 405” and at the end of this – when I sit and think about my day and how everything that could go wrong went wrong and that some things went so amazingly right that I’m borderline smug about them – I will become a better me. A more laid back, adaptable, slightly less neurotic, Lacey.

And the best part: Husband and Dog will be there, and home is where the Husband and Dog are.

LaceyT.

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A change could do you good... could it do me good, too?