New Beginnings

August of 2008. I was a university graduate and nationally ranked martial artist whose life - while highlighted with incredible love and opportunity - was absolutely, positively, heading face-first into the ground. Applying for a credit card, cycling the laundry, cleaning my room, making something to eat, spending time with my family... the littlest things seemed to be insurmountable challenges in my daily life. I simply could not do it, and the world was stacking up on me.

Some nineteen months later, what I can only describe as a 'miracle' ("an effect or extraordinary event in the physical world that surpasses all known human or natural powers and is ascribed to a supernatural cause" - dictionary.com) has occurred.

I changed careers - I'm now working as a teacher, and I have been for a little over a year. I have established credit. I run my own small business on the side, breeding rare and exotic reptiles, and loving every minute of it. I've been paying my own rent for around 12 months - I don't remember exactly, maybe a little over, maybe a little under. My circle of friends has changed dramatically; while I still have some of my old friendships (you know, the really amazing people), I dropped contact with a lot of them, and started talking to new people. My relationship with my parents is phenomenal; we hang out, we have fun, we enjoy each others' company. I'm engaged to the most incredible man I know; he is my perfect partner, and I look forward to starting our life together in the fall.

Those are only a few of the changes that have occurred, ongoingly, over the course of the last year and a half.

In short, I've started to get it together.

...What do I do now?