Travels and Thoughts

04:11 30th Apr 2012

Notes: 7659

Reblogged from skysignal

It’s my first summer break since High School with no summer classes/internship/anything school-related, although there are some BarOps/sorority matters to think of at times. But this is the first summer break (in a very long time) that gives me the privilege to stay at home if I want to. I have spinning classes as a reason to go out for an hour a day and our Hong Kong and Macau trip on May, but other than that and our enrollment in school, you can expect that I will reacquaint myself again with this bed, these sheets and the kitchen. I am trying to cook.

It’s the first summer break that will allow me to be a kid and an adult at the same time. I can go on a siesta or go on an out of town trip, depending on my mood and my funds. This is actually the kind of life that I’ve been dreaming of when I was a kid, wondering how it’ll be when I am 25 — except that this is only fleeting, like roller coaster rides and puppy love.

08:50 10th Jan 2012

Notes: 9471

Reblogged from loveishere

This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or high school even, with all their might. They’ve stayed in jobs they hate, because they’re too scared to get another one. They’ve stayed with men or women who are good but not great, because they don’t want to be lonely. … they mean to develop intimate friendships, they mean to stop drinking like life is one big frat party. But they don’t do those things, so they live in an extended adolescence, no closer to adulthood than when they graduated.

Don’t be like that. Don’t get stuck. Move, travel, take a class, take a risk. There is a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This season is about becoming. Don’t lose yourself at happy hour, but don’t lose yourself on the corporate ladder either. Stop every once in a while and go out to coffee or climb in bed with your journal.

Ask yourself some good questions like: “Am I proud of the life I’m living? What have I tried this month? … Do the people I’m spending time with give me life, or make me feel small? Is there any brokenness in my life that’s keeping me from moving forward?”

Now is your time. Walk closely with people you love, and with people who believe … life is a grand adventure. Don’t get stuck in the past, and don’t try to fast-forward yourself into a future you haven’t yet earned. Give today all the love and intensity and courage you can, and keep traveling honestly along life’s path.

— Relevant magazine (via internal-acceptance-movement)

(Source: meredithbklyn)