Decisions

Dear Bobby,

On behalf of Starbucks, we are pleased to extend you an offer of employment for the Real Estate Asset Manager position in our Boston corporate office. We are excited to have you join our team. Please let us know of your decision to accept or decline this offer as soon as possible.

Sincerely,

Starbucks Human Resources Department - Boston, MA

I should have been happy. I should have gone out with friends for a few drinks to celebrate my new job offer, called my parents to tell them the good news, and then started searching for a place to live to begin my new life in Boston. But I did not do any of those things. I did not celebrate at all. Instead, I reacted to my job offer the way an aged prisoner might react to being paroled after spending the past fifty years behind bars. He is happy to be free, but the life he wanted has already passed him by. I was happy to receive a job offer, but my reason for applying for jobs in Boston has already passed me by too. My reason was never to further any career aspirations...my reason was you Ornela. It was always you.

Now I have a decision to make, to accept or decline this offer...and I do not know what to do.

If you have any feelings for me at all, ask me to come to Boston. Ask me to accept this job offer and move to the city to be with you. For the first time since our first date in Fairfax six years ago we have the opportunity to live near one another. I am not asking you to make this decision for me. I am asking you to listen to your heart, nothing more. 

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I will be in Washington D.C. on Monday, December 8th and possibly Sunday, December 7th. If you are in town visiting your family, I would love to see you again.