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I smile. Thank God Charlize has Poppy. “She told me about the job in California. I’m going to fly out there, but I need to know where she’ll be. Since I’m certain she won’t tell me, I need you to.”
“She’s taking the job?”
That confirms many things for me.
Charlize only just decided to take that job.
“Yes. She’s leaving tomorrow.”
“The job is in LA. I’ll text you the details once I get them all from her.”
“Thank you.”
We end the call and I contemplate my future.
I wasn’t lying to Charlize when I told her I’d pack my life up for her. My roots have all been with my business for seven years. I’ve felt them shifting for a while now. They’ve been restless. Searching for more.
I didn’t know what thatmorewas until last night.
I think it was love at first sight for me with Charlize.
If anyone had told me I’d fall in love at first sight, I would have laughed in their face.
But the moment I saw her in that bathroom, and she started bossing me around, I was captivated. The moment she wanted to know something about me that no one else knew was the moment I fell in love with her. When we shared all that big talk, I knew no other woman would ever earn my attention again.
Having to drive her home last night when she shut down on me was the hardest thing I’ve had to do in a long time. I spent a sleepless night thinking about our conversation, about the mistakes I made in my marriage, about the conversation I had with Charlize regarding the expectations my father had of me.
I thought about what she said last night:I’m saying figure out how to be better at managing your priorities. And if they clash all the time, think about whether they really are your priorities.
Charlize told me that she knows what the Bluestone Award means to me. The thing I came to understand last night is that the award doesn’t mean what I thought it did.
I was chasing it because I was nominated and that felt good. It felt like all the long hours and years I’ve put into my company were worth it. That I finally would have met my father’s expectations if he’d been alive.
I don’t give a fuck about the award.
I only ever cared about those expectations.
But that was before I found something I care about more.
SomeoneI care about more than any of that bullshit.
My priorities have been clashing, and last night I realized it was time to think about whether they really are my priorities.
The Bluestone Award isn’t important.
Playing the game isn’t important.
Working my ass off so I can just keep getting up to continue working it off isn’t important.
I’m in love with Charlize and she is my priority now.
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Charlize
Poppy: Are you in LA yet?
Charlize: I just got to my hotel.
