This weekend marked my 3 year anniversary of moving to Breckenridge! I'm still not quite sure what triggered my decision my senior year of college to delay law school to go out to be a ski bum. A big part was my attorney father (and my mom too) encouraging me not only to take a year off (during which I was planning on interning at a law firm), but to take some FUN time off! I'd grown up skiing out West on spring break, so I was familiar with the idea of people working in ski towns after college before entering the "real" world.
Although it is really bizarre to see peers from childhood and college finishing grad school, getting career jobs, and getting married, I am SO glad I came out here. I feel like I am a completely different person than I would have been had I followed the path I'd laid out for myself during college. I became a yoga teacher (which greatly helped with my stress level that I felt as a student in school), worked in a restaurant (everyone should totally work in a service industry job at some point in his/her life!), skied/hiked/ran/biked all over Colorado, and had the freedom from working in a resort town to travel a ton!
As I make plans to maybe move on, and as excited as I am to start out somewhere new, the life I've developed here in Colorado is one that is near and dear to my heart. The people in my town are extremely educated and have decided that lifestyle (being able to bike and ski amazing stuff everyday) comes before career. It's a similar mentality I found in my month in Costa Rica: work to live, not live to work. I am wanting to develop a career, something I enjoy and that challenges me. But I've learned to love traveling and having a flexible schedule at work. Other than my love of outdoors, the best thing about my life in CO are my friends! I've made friends that will go camping with me for days, and then will dress up in heels and diamonds and go dancing with me. They're friendships that eptomize "the best of both worlds" mentality that I love and live. Now I'm just trying to find the "best of both worlds" when it comes to...everything else in my life.
Colorado: your people, mountains, snow, trails, resorts, openness... You've changed me. My three years here has helped me think about what's important to me and what I want in my life. It's all helped me become who I am today. And I'm so excited to see how it'll help me become who I will be in the future!
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