{"id":13021,"date":"2015-07-07T23:52:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T03:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/ellentrudell\/?p=79"},"modified":"2015-07-07T23:52:52","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T03:52:52","slug":"changes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/changes\/","title":{"rendered":"Changes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Change is something I&#8217;ve been kind of obsessed with lately. I mean, it&#8217;s even all I could think about in my Challenge Detroit spotlight video! Proof:<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"Challenge Detroit Year 3 | Fellow Spotlight: Ellen Trudell\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TQrQdSunwHY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Public Service Announcement &#8211; it was super weird making a video of myself. When I went to write the script about my time as a Challenge Detroit fellow, change was literally all my mind would allow me to create material about. But I&#8217;m good with it, because it feels authentic. Like I&#8217;ve truly captured a moment in my life. That&#8217;s also what I really appreciate about these blogs. It&#8217;s a window into my psyche each month; a very public diary if you will.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I&#8217;ve been going through a lot these past few weeks. I started a new job, but really it&#8217;s been more about all of the relationships I&#8217;ve grown this past year and how so many of those people are moving on. Maybe their careers are going to be kick-started elsewhere. Maybe they&#8217;re going back to school. Maybe their work visa was denied. (I&#8217;m still so sorry for my friend &#8211; it&#8217;s hard to imagine going through something like that).<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, they&#8217;re leaving here. These people are leaving Detroit, leaving me. And I&#8217;m actually happy for each of them and the plans they&#8217;ve made for themselves. But it doesn&#8217;t hurt less when people you&#8217;ve come to really appreciate and come to care deeply for are no longer going to be in your life in the same capacity. I&#8217;ve been struggling. CASE IN POINT, I was strongly considering adopting a cat. If you knew me well, you would know that&#8217;s practically a revolutionary thought.<\/p>\n<p>So the conclusion I&#8217;ve come to is to savor every moment I have left in the life I&#8217;ve created here for myself in Detroit, with these people, new and old. My Detroit life will go on of course, but it will be different. As I said to myself back in May in my spotlight script, change is inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m writing this in the final moments of my 24th year. It&#8217;s been stellar to say the least. Job, friends, apartment, family &#8211; all great. Turning 25 seems like the end of an era; it feels like a big deal.<\/p>\n<p>However, tonight I had an amazing dinner with my parents, I was serenaded in the lobby while rocking my favorite jumpsuit, am listening to Lady Gaga and watched fireworks on the water from my apartment window. Hell, my birthday isn&#8217;t even until tomorrow. Life is good.<\/p>\n<p>25 has some big shoes to fill, but I just so happen to have a thing for shoes.<\/p>\n<p>Sinatra&#8217;s\u00a0<em>The Best is Yet to Come\u00a0<\/em>is the last song I heard tonight. It&#8217;s a good sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Change is something I&#8217;ve been kind of obsessed with lately. I mean, it&#8217;s even all I could think about in my Challenge Detroit spotlight video! Proof: Public Service Announcement &#8211; it was super weird making a video of myself. 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