We have entered the second decade of third millennium. We have started our life afresh with new dreams through shrouded in obscure fears. Global warming, globalization, recession, etc. are challenging our future.

I’ll never let anyone take away my ability to love, but I will take the lesson that life and love are things that can’t be rushed.

This short, nonfiction piece is about the day I left New Jersey and moved to Chicago, over fourteen and a half years ago. It is perhaps the beginning of a novel. It is also a piece of work that got me accepted into the Long Ridge Writers Group School of Writing over five years ago. This version has been revised and edited a bit. I also changed it from third person to first person. Although I KNOW it is not perfect, it is just something I wanted to throw out there. I hope you enjoy it.