Seattle is amazing.

Ok, I got that out of my system and now let me tell you why. So first of all, little background. I belong to a closed community, a forum, a cult if you may. There I’ve met some of the best designers I’ve ever seen and I’m finally happy to say that now I’ve had the pleasure of meeting most of them in real life.

Every year, this community has a meet-up and I was fortunate enough to be on west coast this summer, so airfare wasn’t too bad. So I came. All in all, it was a great time.

I get a lot of inspiration from these people and it was great to meet some of the entrepreneurs as well. Overall, I’m learning to be a doer and not just an observer. I have ideas, but rarely implement them. This summer has taught me a lot and I’m very interested in doing a startup. I don’t know what it will be yet, but I’m an entrepreneur at heart and the more people I meet, the more inspired I get to take the risk and actually do things. I have many passions, but as I learned recently, I have to pick a passion and go for it. Be best at one thing, not mediocre at 10.

I have also began realizing how awesome traveling is and how many cities are actually better than Pittsburgh. Just in the past two summers I’ve visited or vacationed in New York, Chicago, San Francisco and now Seattle. I’ve been to a ton of other cities on east coast as well growing up (Boston, etc.)

I guess to sum it up, one of the main things I’ve learned about myself is that I highly dislike suburb living and that I love the idea of a loft.

I’m going home in a week, finally.