"You'll be in my heart, from this day on, now and forever more."

I am eight months into being in the real world, and I have realized that the hardest part about working is the sense that time is really short.  These days, it often feels like I blink and a week has gone by.  When I was little, I never truly understood what people meant when they talked about time "flying". At that stage in my life, it seemed like it took way longer than 365 days to get from birthday to birthday, from Halloween to Halloween and from the end of summer to the start of the next one.  Now, I feel like hours and days disappear in a flash, and it has really alerted me to the importance of living with a purpose.  Of course, my job often gets in the way of doing the things that I ultimately would like to spend my time doing--laughing until I cry with old friends, spending quality time with family and making a difference in people's lives.  Still, I often replay a moment in which my brother gave me what has to be some of the most important advice I have received--"Don't let your job change who you are."  I have tried to make sure that being an attorney at Big Law LLP doesn't fundamentally alter my being, my outlook, my dreams, my personality, etc., but it's hard.  It's incredibly easy to be sucked into the mix, drink the Kool Aid and lose your sense of self.  Nevertheless, I have recently begun to reach out to my friends, near and far, to try to maintain the friendships I worked so hard to build.  In particular, I have really enjoyed the catch up calls with friends from high school and college, and I hope that I continue to get better and better at keeping in touch with these people.  I just wish that time would slow down a little (or that there could somehow be another 2 hours each day) so that I could spend more time doing the things I want to do and the same or less of the things I need to do but don't really want to do.  In the meantime, I'm keeping everyone in my heart and am taking a little time each day to reach out to the loving circle of friends and family that I am blessed to have.

Un beso muy grande,
A