I’ve been a slacker these past few weeks (ok, in all honesty...maybe for half a year now...) as you can see with last year’s pitiful number of posts. Truth be told, there are days where I feel like dropping everything to just travel the world for a year. That would be awesome! Then reality sets in and I start thinking about everything between Apartment Rent to Zika Virus — aaaaaaaand my happy daydream bubble is bursted. I start thinking of all the time “wasted”, my failures, my unknown future, and those pesky might-have-beens. Before I know it, I end up eating a whole bag of chips while staring out the window (I don’t even have a view to speak of, just the facade of another apartment). But before you think I’m trying to drag you into a pool of misery, let me tell you about what I learned.
Through this, I learned that it’s okay to sometimes feel down. It’s okay to dream about seemingly impossible things. It’s okay to not always have a 1000 kilowatt smile plastered on your face. As Jessie J so wonderfully sings: “It’s okay not to be okay”.
I recently took these photos and I love how the fog and the snow hid things from my view. I find it calming when the top of buildings vanish into nothingness and the distant horizon is obscured. It is when glaring headlights turn into mystical floating pinpricks and a massive bridge fades into an indistinct shadow that I am reminded of the beauty of not seeing everything. In a world that glorifies being busy and equates wealth to a life well lived, a day covered in a blanket of fog just reminds me that perhaps the here and now is all that we need to see and appreciate. It’s okay when we haven’t figured out everything. It’s okay if you don’t have a ten-year master plan for your career and your whole life mapped out. It’s okay! To try. To take a misstep. To try again. It’s okay to fail! Trust me, it’s okay. I know that now. It just took me a walk along the Danube on a foggy day to finally see my life more clearly.
Cheers to 2016 and to a life lived
one day at a time!
(p.s. Thank you for sticking around and
I'm hoping you'll join me for a new travel series!)
