The End of Innocence, The Beginning of Opportunity

Losing your virginity isn’t about sex and it isn’t about
loss.

The larger story is about a person of any age, inexperienced
and uninformed, who uncovers a stepping stone to a new level of awareness and
maturity about himself and the world in which he lives.

When I landed my first job as an adult, I lost my
professional virginity.

But looking back, that experience was less about the doing
the work and more about getting something out of my system and proving to myself
that I could do it and becoming confident with who I was and knowing that if I
did it once, I could do it again.

It’s a beautiful thing. A rite of passage. A healthy human
milestone.

And while it may be the end of the innocence, it’s also the
beginning of opportunity.