Airplane Seats

so for those of you who do follow my blog you'd have noticed that I've been rather quiet of late. There's a simple explination for this, I've been thinking about something that I didn't want to put online. About two months ago I met a wonderful woman named Carianne and I started thinking about relationships and if I was ready for one, or if I would ever be ready for one. After much thought and quite a few mostly sleepless nights I decided to ask her if she would be interested in a romantic relationship, and she was in fact rather pleased by this news because she had been thinking the same thing for a while too apparently.

So on the first of June I got my first girlfriend and it has been, and continues to be the best experience of my life. There was of course a shit load to think about, not least because today I have embarked on yet another new journey in my life which has had a major effect on our relationship.

You see, today I left to go to Joburg for three months so that I can train to become an Air Traffic Controller. I'm currently sitting in an airplane feeling rather scared and sad, but with some sense of hope that things will actually work out in the end.

This hope is of course fuelled partially by the fact that Carianne, Pierre and possibly a few of my other friends are likely to road trip to visit me in a few weeks time, but mostly because I am confident in not only my ability but also the fact that I am doing the right thing.

I am starting a career and am actually doing something with my life, and that's a good feeling. Up until now I've not known what I was going to do, or indeed what I wanted to do, but now I know that this is something that I can do, and hopefully well. It is a strange feeling though because I haven't actually started training or anything like that, but I just have a feeling that I can do this.

Now, I'm sure that I shall be blogging a lot more over the next few months, and possibly longer so please do check back for updates. I will also be on various IMs so when I get a chance I will always be ready for a chat. Right now I just don't want to cry too much so I'm going to try and get some sleep.