Today I am grateful for choices. All along this road of life, and especially in the last year and a half, I have always had choices. I can credit this great country of ours or my parents or even previous choices on my part or, most likely, all three. In any case, I am very aware that the choices that I have are a gift. I have chosen who I date, where I live, and my career. I think it would be easy to take all of this for granted if not for little reminders here and there. Right now I have a choice in how many banks I pursue (thanks for Roy for telling me that Walt Disney went to 13 before he got his financing for Disney World). Being on unemployment gave me many choices as well. That absolutely has never gone unnoticed.
Right now I find myself in an interesting position. I have talked to three banks so far. One has rejected financing WeatherVane’s opening costs. The other two are trying to see what they can do. And I guess I have at least ten others to talk to. In fact, a bank called me last week to see if they could do anything to help. At the same time, my personal reserves are due to give way in late February. There are also three amazing job opportunities on the table.
I never would have imagined that I would come to this day with such an abundance of choices. And I guess I am a gambler because I just play all the cards and see which ones come out on top. And of course, I always have veto power. So with this New Year (albeit a little early), I toast to Choices.