Getting to where she was in her career was no easy task and she couldn’t believe that she wanted to quit.  To give it all up?  That’s crazy, she told herself.   She must be losing her mind.  Why is she letting someone she barely knew change her?  Besides, she needed the security and the steady salary that she was so accustomed to and a career change seemed scary at the moment.  She wanted to be like her friend Kristy, the risk-taker, but deep down inside she was afraid of the unknown and the uncertainty.  The possibility of failure was all too real and didn’t most artists starve during the first few years? 

       Whatever it is she decided to do, she thought, there will be a plan and some fail proof back-up plan just in case.  That was more like the old Erika she knew.  Cautious.

                    The plane finally landed.  She called a taxicab over then pays the driver as she neared her apartment.  She dragged her luggage to the lobby, in the elevator and into her apartment.  Home, sweet home.  It was so good to be back.

                     She set her alarm for four hours later and then took off her shoes and flopped on the bed.  The familiar scent of her own bed was so comforting; she fell asleep like a log.

                    Morning came all too soon.  She didn’t want to be at work, to have to think about numbers, figures and to actually work.  I need to sort out my life and find out what it is that I want.  I can’t just keep on living when it’s starting to become meaningless to me.

                   There were a dozen of phone messages on her desk.  Her in tray were full of things to incorporate into the reports, expenses reports, budgets, travel expenses, etc.  Her administrative assistant Megan stuck her head into the office.

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