My Utopia.

I am feeling reflective today. A professor in the Educational Psychology Department unexpectedly died last night and it reminded me that life is so short. It also reminded me that I am so far away from many of my family and friends, and anything could happen in literally the blink of an eye. It's so difficult to reconcile emotions like the ones I am having when I want so badly to travel and live other places, but I want equally as badly to be close to my family and friends. Then, I move and build wonderful friendships with people elsewhere (e.g., Kelly and Christine) and I have to eventually leave them! Ahh. So, what I'm going to do is buy an island (a big island so that we are not crammed on it, like the size of Cuba or maybe Australia) and move everyone that I care about to this place. I will have a little of everything - a booming city (where we will make our money), a few suburbs (or more depending on the size of the island), and a countryside where we can horseback ride and plant crops (to live on - all organic?) and play and have fun. Throw in a few beaches and this is pretty much utopia. Well, as long as everyone agrees to move.