This is Cindy.  "On the one hand, I feel incredibly productive, and there's also this sense of the unknown, a sense of not knowing how the world is going to look for now.  For someone like me who hasn't traveled a lot...that's what I wanted to do this whole year!  And now, I'm not sure...I lost my mother six months ago and there's a feeling of grief over her death that maybe I wouldn't be feeling if I was just running around doing my life.  I wish I could just call her and ask her 'what do you think about this whole thing?' It makes me sad that she's not here to share this with me and on the other hand I'm glad she's not because I don't think she would be able to handle it. And it makes me sad that my brother and nephews are a half hour away and I can't even be with them, you know/. I just wish I could give them a big hug right now..." 

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