My First Love

At 15 years old I can recall taking a trip with my church choir to Atlanta, GA. From the second I got off the train, I was in love. ATL seemed to be where "it's at". I visited CNN studios, the Martin Luther King Memorial site, museum and Ebenezer Baptist Church, Coca-Cola Factory, the Underground Mall and Six Flags. Sure I had been to ATL before but I was so young that I could hardly remember. This time was just so much different. I fell in love with the city, the people and the brand new silver Lexus SC or the "drop-top Lexus" as I like to call it. 

After that trip, no one couldn't have told me that I wasn't going to graduate from high school and attend Spelman College in ATL. Well someone did do that. Lol. My mother told me that if I went to Spelman she wouldn't come visit me. And that sealed the deal of me ever going there since I didn't have a car, had never flown in a plane and I feared that I'd be stranded for the holidays. 

I've returned to ATL for short period of times between now and then due to canceled flights and other things of the sort. I have recently been able to spend a little bit more time there. As expected, I'm still fascinated with this place.  I'm not particularly amused with the fact that it takes about 30 minutes to get anywhere, but what major city isn't like that? The landscape and housing of this place is amazing. Like most major cities, there is always something to do. While visiting I went to places like Dave & Busters, Atlanta Aquarium (one word for this... BEAUTIFUL) and Dialogue in the Dark at the Atlantic Station. 

If you haven't experienced Dialogue in the Dark, then you just don't know what you are missing. It can only be found in ATL and NY and a few other international locations. I don't like to talk about my career objective, but as a future doctor of optometry, I have experienced a situation similar to this during a lab but definitely not  the same. This exhibit includes a group of 10 being guided through various scenes in the dark by a blind tour guide. My tour guide had bilateral uveitis and was left blind at the age of 36 in 2004. After that experience it made me appreciate God's gift of vision, both physically and mentally. Furthermore my decision to go into such an awesome profession. 


So with that said, I'm not quite sure what Alabama has to offer since that's where I'm actually living at the moment. Lol. But I love ATL and am again contemplating settling there at some point in my life. I dream to retire early at like 50 years old to a Victorian or Acadian style home in Savannah, GA.