Switched it on, The sweet spot

Last night for some reason I decided to turn on my Nintendo Switch. I bought it when I still lived at my old house. Since moving it has sat in it’s charging dock behind the TV in my bedroom, hidden from view. Perhaps that is why I have not turned it on since moving, yes a period of over two years…

I was sort of curious if it still worked, it did. After connecting it to my wi-fi network and downloading the latest system update I was up and running. I looked at the games I had loaded on the device and didn’t really feel like playing any of them so instead I downloaded a tower defense game that I have played with my nephew on my PC before. I have always been a fan of tower defense format. I chilled out and played a full round on easy mode as I acclimated to the controls. It was a lot of fun. I predict it will not be two years until I turn on the Switch again.

My Switch session was just part of an evening where I just felt good. I was thinking about how I got to the point where I am at and the irony that my moving, which is key to the change, was initially motivated by the relationship I was in with what turns out to be one of the most toxic women I have ever known. Yet as bad as that entire mess was, I am where I am as a result of it, ironic.

For a good portion of the last two years my personal relationships were a tumultuous sea, never bringing me a feeling of peace that I was hoping for. I now am in a relationship that feels real where I am appreciated, respected, and valued. For the last 6 months I also have been dealing with chronic pain in my hip/knee that greatly limited my ability to do what I enjoy doing. Finally that appears to be on the mend in an appreciable way. As I sat out on my lanai last night watching the sun fade from the sky as I drank a Cayman Jack I thought to myself that maybe, just maybe, I finally have reached the sweet spot that I have worked my entire life to reach.