Best Practices

This last week has been extremely busy.
We had our BOSS (Better Opportunities for Single Soldiers) Regional Forum down here, and we had people from all over the peninsula come to Daegu for it. It was great to have people I haven't seen in a while come down here for this, and it was really awesome to meet new folks. We had a few people from Department of the Army come as well, which was really incredible for us, as they are three really outstanding women.
The amount I learned both professionally and personally this past week blows me away, now that I have slept off enough of the exhaustion to be able to see it clearly.
Professionally, I have gotten my head a lot better wrapped around what I need to do both for my local BOSS Program, as well as for myself and my career. I'm going to be sitting down with my 1sg on Monday and discussing things I don't want to continue being responsible for and some things that I think I can do better with his help. There's a board I'll be going to on Friday, which is more than a little worrisome after this crazy week, as studying couldn't have been farther from my mind.
On a personal level, an individual I was seeing prior to this week has dropped out of my life, and with a reason. He hasn't done anything horribly wrong, but he has taught me what I was meant to learn from him, and now I see pretty clearly that he's not someone I would be happy with long-term. I fought with this thought before, but chalked it up to being scared of committing, etc. After not hearing from him for days, and not caring, I realized that I needed to let that go, because he wasn't as caring or interested in my life and wellbeing as I needed my other half to be. I let it go. I am glad I kept my senses with him and kept it slow and didn't let it get farther than it did. I got to talking to someone I've had a crush on for quite some time over this week, and will be spending some more time with him. It's interesting to me that he turned out to be such an awesome guy, and the timing of this; he is not nearly as aggressive as most of the guys I'm used to dating, and is the type I usually would have chalked up to being "too nice", but recent experiences have made me see what that's worth.
I don't know what's going to happen, or where this will all take me. I know that I met some truly outstanding people, and that I'm really grateful for their support and friendship, and that I have an impression upon me of how far I can go that I truly believe will never wear off.
SGM Coon, if you read this, thank you from the bottom of my heart. Your kind words and gestures will not be forgotten, and you can't possibly know how inspiring you are to a young(-ish) Soldier like myself.