This is, without a doubt, the best week I’ve had so far this year. Somewhere between the muscle soreness, the celebrations, the accomplishments and the random positive things sliding across my desk it all just glommed into one big ball of slightly manic awesomeness, and now as I sit here at the end of it I’m allowing myself a well-deserved pint to toast a life well lived.

“Life well lived”… that really is the goal, isn’t it. It’s all well and good to accomplish goals and acquire assets that match with some socially acceptable norm, but when in the end you look back and realize you were miserable trying to achieve all that you can’t exactly say it’s time well spent, can you? No, this week has been proof positive that for me I not only love reaching my destination, but that the journey on the way there is taken in a way that makes it all worthwhile. The goal is merely the capstone to an amazing experience, and while I do work hard I do so because I want to, rather than a misplaced sense of martyrdom.

So lets recap, shall we?