Today was surreal for me
We moved the last of our things out of our house before closing
With everything out I went upstairs one last time to double check we got everything
As I was walked upstairs I noticed one of my sons dinosaurs left on the stairs.
I grabbed it and sat down for a minute
I started thinking about all the good times we had in that house
First house me and my wife bought together
House where my son and daughter were born
Where they took their first steps
Where we had all their birthday parties
It was a house we always dreamed of.
There was some sadness in walking out of that house for the last time
What’s funny is I paid $360k for that house and now my house is 7 figures with a ton of land
Now my daughter can have horses
I’m having a pool installed
We can shoot guns
I bought a side by side
We have our own softball/baseball field
With all that it was still hard to leave that house
And we are selling that house to buy my wife her dream house on the beach and as rental property
Now it’s time to make new memories
In a house my kids love even more
My next son will be born in this new house in about 12 weeks
We will have plenty of things to do
We will take trips to the beach
We will ride 4 wheelers and watch deer
Knowing all this and it was still hard to walk away but it had to be done
Moral: if you want to make a brighter future you’ve got to leave the past behind you
No matter how good or bad the past is you have to leave it there….in the past.
Learn from it
Always remember it
But to grow you’ve got to keep pushing forward
No matter how comfortable you are where you’re at, go out, move on and make new memories that get you closer to your dreams
Keep pushing