I wish I took more pictures and wrote more to tell you what it’s like here.   The few pictures i’ve gotten to post don’t do it justice.  I am just trying to experience it all and am kind of getting wrapped up in my life here.  My lovely, wonderful life.

I’m coming to the 2 month mark of this incredible journey (craaaaaazy it’s been that long already). My mom is coming to visit next week for Easter break and i’m so excited. I have missed the people from back home terribly. I guess it’s natural. We spend our years building relationships, friends, family, usually in one place. The comfort thing. And there are times when of course I wish it’d be easier to just be able to walk to my best friend’s for coffee, breakfast and gossip or play soccer in the backyard with Olivia and Johnny on the first warm day in a while.  But, those are the sacrifices I made and what we all give up when we take risks and try something new.  I’ve realized I don’t have to give it all up though, I just have to adjust to it a bit, and enjoy our conversations when we get to have them.   Sometimes taking a step back/away (half a world a way) puts your life in a whole new perspective. It’s never a bad thing to see how much we really have in our lives that make us truly rich (even when our bank accounts make us think otherwise).  All the things we have that money can’t buy.

And I think the reason I haven’t taken so many pictures is because i’m learning to just live in the moment. Something I was never really good at before. It’s Disney’s fault. And all those games we played growing up, like Life and M.A.S.H. We plan out our lives only to expect so much and ultimately be disappointed, only because what we think we want is so unrealistic. Which is nuts if you think about it because do we really even want to end up with Prince Charming (he’s a little boring and predictable if you ask me) and live in a mansion (which I know you all hoped for when you crossed out shack in MASH).  And for me, I already have someone better than Prince Charming and get to live in a magical place that isn’t a theme park.  It’s as if for once i’m driving my little car around the LIFE game board (on the left side of the road of course) not worried about what’s next, excited just to be where I am, with who I am at this very moment (having the best time as you can see).

There is a great movie (in my opinion anyway) called “About Time” that came out recently.  To give you a quick and brief summary of the movie, the main character gets the chance to go back in time if he wants to, to relive moments over again if he chooses to, if he wants them to be different, or better even.  But at the end he doesn’t go back at all. He decides to make the best of each and every moment.  He takes in all the little things and chooses not want to relive them or want them to be any different.  And I wouldn’t want anything to be different and often catch myself thinking “I love my life”.  I could say I don’t know why, but I do.  And that’s how i’m going to be from now on… in love with my life, every minute of it.