The Only Goal I Set This Year

Every year I make a list.  I don't know that I would call it a New Year's Resolution list though.  It's a list I make toward the end of the year in preparation for the year to come.  All the things I hope to accomplish.  (ok, yes, this is starting to sound like a Resolution list...)  Sometimes these goals are personal, sometimes they're for my business.  And to be honest, sometimes I don't always achieve them.  But I make them none-the-less.  They give me something to work towards, to motivate myself to do something more and sometimes greater than I thought I was capable of.

This year's list was simple.  It only contained one goal.  But for me, that was enough.  I wanted to go to Paris.

I've been dreaming about this trip for as long as I can remember.  Even my family will attest to that.  Sometimes I thought I'd never actually go, that the pictures I had would only ever be that: someone else's pictures.  But then this year happened.  My life found a new balance and distant goals didn't seem so unachievable anymore.  I suddenly found myself with someone beside me who shared those goals.

So tomorrow we go, my best friend and I, on a trip that seems like a dream I still haven't woken from.