One year ago I "came out of the closet". For a
while I've been thinking about what I could write about in honor of this one
year anniversary. This is what I came up with...
This past month, I did my re-shoot for my Voices of Hope
video. As I prepped, I had my trepidations. Was I ready? If not, when would I
be? Wouldn't it be better to wait until I had a "happy ending" and I
was able to film my video alongside a beautiful woman?
As I thought about how nice it would be to doing my video
with my wife, I remembered something that Ty told me last year when I met him
at my original Voices of Hope shoot in November. I hadn't been sure if said
everything that I'd wanted to in my video. Ty mentioned to me that he'd had
similar feelings after writing "In Quiet Desperation". When he had
written that, he wasn't married. In fact, he still wasn't sure he'd ever get
married. Now, years later he is married and he has two kids.
Even just since I came out last year, so much has happened.
I filmed my Voices if Hope video in November, I moved to the Foreign Language
Student Residence (FLSR) for a semester, I changed my major (again), I went to
Journey into Manhood, and I did my re-shoot for my Voices of Hope video last
month. I did all these things and I've done more too.
The great thing for me to realize is that there's more to
come. I'm not finished yet. I have a lot to look forward to: marriage (whenever
that happens), my own family, making more new friends, and learning more and
more things in school (I've got 2.5 years left after all).
In fact, how sad would it be if I was "ready" for
my video? At least by my former definition of "ready" (married,
family, and completely perfect), that would make life kind of boring. I have so
much to look forward to right now because I'm not finished yet.
There is always more good to come!