In less than 48 hours, my 33rd year will come to a close and i can’t help but be dumbfounded by the magnitude of changes that has happened this year. the year started out quietly and uneventful enough but there were seeds of change right around the turn of the 33rd. in hindsight, i had just met my lover a month prior and at that point, we were merely friends and i was still in a state of denial that we were even that. fast forward 2 or 3 months and i get a valentine’s gift from her and even though she says it’s a prank joke, i begin to suspect that more to the relationship that the seemingly benign late night conversations. it’s really not necessary to retrace every milestone but i would have to say that by the end of june, the new chapter had already begun.