So this week is officially my last week living in Williamsburg at least for the foreseeable future and I’m having a bit of a quarter life crisis. I went out to dinner with a friend from high-school and realized that in a way Williamsburg has become a part of me as much as I have become a part of it as hard as that is to admit. The parkway, the beach, the hard gangsters of FC, the rehab kids, the close friends, the not so close ones, the deli’s, the drama, and all the other good and bad things that went along with this town. In a way I feel that a little piece of me is going to be left behind but it is also the end of one volume of my life and the start of another, a new beginning. Yea if you had asked me a few years ago where I saw myself being after I graduated I would have most likely said, “Somewhere, anywhere but Williamsburg” and now if I had it all to do over again I would not have changed a minute. Yes living with my parents for 6 months after graduation was trying at times to say the least, for them just as much as me. In the grand scheme of things though I know that in this time with my parents I was able to learn and realize one thing that I thought I knew but now I am for sure and that is if the rest of the world said that I didn’t belong they would be there to let me know that the world doesn’t know it head from its hind parts anyways. The time with my grandparents, getting to know them as a fellow adults has also been priceless no longer am I just a boy for them to pinch my cheeks and tell me how big I’m getting but a person to discuss various issues whether it be related to POLI-TICs, the economy, religion or various social issues and even if we did not agree on all issues they still respected my point of view as I respected theirs. I will miss being able to to wake up whenever I would wake up on Saturday and go for a visit to my favorite bistro Le Deskins right next door where the food was only topped by the love and care in which everything was done. Williamsburg has made me truly realize the meaning of ”Parting is such sweet sorrow.”