The Bridges of New York City

I have traveled across a lot of bridges in New York City. After all, you can't really go from Manhattan to other boroughs without crossing some water, so a bridge or a tunnel or a boat (or, of course, a subway over a bridge or through a tunnel) is kind of a given.
 
Yet, I am neither knowledgeable enough about or invested enough in New York's bridges to write a blog post about them. Rather, this post is about the other bridges we cross in our lives. For while we face each experience as an event unto itself, when we step back, it turns out that almost everything we do is actually a bridge between where we've been and where we're going. And sometimes, seeing the bridges as just that--ways to get from Point A to Point B--makes us much more comfortable with the movement and change that we face every day.
 
When we start a new experience, we go in thinking it will be a long-term one. Now, maybe that is the long-time soap employee in me speaking, but I do think we all want things that last, and the security that comes with those things. These days, jobs don't necessarily last. Circumstances change, responsibilities shift. Yet, if we look carefully, we can see that each job, whether short-term or long, comes with a set of tools for building a bridge. Each experience teaches us skills that help us travel to the next one, and provides the bridge we need to move forward. We don't always know exactly where these bridges we build will take us, but just like the bridges of New York, they allow us the kind of exploration that can even be worth the toll.
 
Change isn't easy, and unknown journeys can be frightening. But if we build and traverse our bridges wisely, we may end up in some destinations we never thought were possible.