It's the hardest thing to take that first step........One can never really know how things will turn out & I have found that the path can actually be exciting & interesting. However it's important to be in touch with reality along the way. I was a music major even got my AA degree in it, but to be a professional performer on my flute was never going to be a reality & needed to find something that would really earn money.....so who would think, I went from music to computer science & ended up in an firmware engineering position.....it was a lot of hard work......but it was worth every minute of the hard work it took.....while I was still able to enjoy my music as a hobby in small chamber groups while still able to earn a real living.

Have learned over the years that anything that happens is for a reason & is really a step either for learning something more about life & about myself......interesting about your weight issues.....I have always been small.......stress ended up causing me to deal with anorexia several times in the last 15 years.....along with one period of being way overweight when my migraines were horrible & I couldn't ride my horse or even function.......but now after the last struggle with stress caused anorexia, I am now at a healthy place in my life, took a risk & left my husband, moving 2200 miles away from where I lived for 54 years to a place where I didn't know anyone at all.....huge change at that time in my life after 33 years of marriage.

Change can be good & can open the doors to a wonderful new life......sometimes we just have to take the leap of faith knowing that it won't kill us & the worse thing that can happen is that we find it isn't as good of a situation as we had hoped for....usually, it ends up being the best thing that we could do. Taking risks are tough & hard to push ourselves into.....but the rewards are something we couldn't possibly experience if we hadn't taken the chance.....we never know until we try.