What a way to start a blog, eh?! Go ahead, call me a Debbie Downer – I’m allowed to be this week after surviving a heart-wrenching break-up, especially one that had nothing to do with feelings, but everything to do with circumstance. =/ But that’s life…and life’s good at jabbing you in the ribs from time to time to remind us all that we’re human. Thanks, life. 
In other news, it’s been a noteworthy week after experiencing the mild panic of a steam pipe explosion just blocks away from work, seeing the best free concert ever (John Mayer & Eric Clapton), and being randomly reunited with a childhood friend (third reunion yet in NYC this summer!).
So with all these events, I finally mustered up the motivation to start this blog, not necessarily to vent about why my week was so shitty, but rather to add some insight hopefully to my own life and ponder the bigger picture.
This past Thursday, the JP Morgan Chase interns got the opportunity to have an engaging Q&A session with the bank’s CEO, Jamie Dimon. In regards to a woman stepping down from an executive level position to a less aggressive job for work/life/balance reasons (yes, we all love that buzz word, don’t we interns?) and receiving a pay cut, he quoted the following: “You can have it all, but you can’t have it all at once.” Later this week, the same idea pops back up after watching an episode of Sex and the City where Carrie states, “In New York, they say you’re always looking for a job, boyfriend, or an apartment. So let’s say you have 2 out of 3…why do we let the one thing we don’t have affect how we feel about all the things we do have?“
In applying this to my own situation, I wonder why it is that my relationship couldn’t withstand the external pressures of timing, distance, and family (not to say that I’m loving my job either, but more on that later). Is it true that you can’t ever have your cake and eat it too? Perhaps this great love I had was brief in order to open up doors that I would’ve nonetheless closed or ignored (I sense you nodding right now). But do you just simply let go of something you once believed in because it’s just too risky, even before getting a valid sense of what it’d be like?
With two quarters left at RIT, I’ve begun to think about post-graduation life. How do people decide where to go? Do you build your life around someone who you think you could potentially be with or do you pursue that career you’ve always wanted? And why can’t you do both?
It’s always difficult to find the so called ‘balance’.
I have found in my life experiences that you get all or nothing. When you get it ‘all’ you can only handle a little. So, in reality, you always are in a constant flux of wanting more, or bumming that you don’t have anything.
:shrug:
In time it gets better- you realize that what you do have doesn’t go into this flux… be it friends, or family, or for me, my dog. hehe. I’ve spent a lot of time being bummed about not having a girlfriend or a job that I really like.. but.. after a while, you figure out what matters to you and what keeps you going until that next person in you life appears, or that next awesome break at a job shows up.
You’ll pull through this one Syp
and you can always drop me an IM 
Well this is pretty much teh STRONGest blag i’ve ever read.
Awesome blog – I wish I could blog daily again – See you soon.
aww bubba, at least u have a sister who loves you dearly….that’s all u need. can’t wait to see you in August!