End of an ERA and the journey just started...

It was time to leave ... I just spent my last hour at Terminal 5 in O'Hare with my folks as they ate ice cream and we talked about London and where I should spend those hours of lay over. It was 4:30 pm and flight was going to board around 5, luckily the security check line was down to a few people after it was about 40 deep some 15 minutes ago.

I got up hugged my mom and I could feel tears starting to form in my eyes, that tingle you get and although there is no specific reason you feel sad. I mean yes I was leaving but I know I will be back and see her again and talk to her as soon as possible but there was something else there. My life in Chicago as that person was now going to be gone forever! Obviously for me that person I was, was strongly influnced by my parents ans so hence that feeling of moving on and starting somehting new has a sad element to it! I knew my mom was also very sad inside but kept it together as I knew she is very proud! Even now as I right tears form becuase it is all so fresh, but these are also tears of joy! Liberation and the dawn of a new time, and a new person that will hopefully improve... Fede 2.0 :) or perhaps 4.0 since Next year I will turn 40.

At any rate I also said good bye to my father, that also was tough. Not long ago I realized that I have been working along his side and trying to learn as much as possible from him for the last 20 years or so. We had become good friends and I wish I was a bit smarter so I could have absorbed more from him but well you do what you can! It was fun and we will still work together and have many projects ongoing (next year our book will come out, and we are trying to partner with people on his newly acquired patent) but this too marked a tough time for me to say good bye to someone who has given so much to me and has been a great father to me.

So I got though the first check looked back and there they were waving goodbye and by then I could not control my tears. I love them a lot and as most of my friends know I love Chicago and while this marks the end of an era of great fun and importance in my life a new one was about to begin and I at that point understood that this is life.....next stop London heathrow.