Bitter-Sweet

“For everything you miss, you have gained something else, and everything you gain, you lose something else.”

5 weeks from today I leave the states and will begin to live in your tomorrow. What does that mean to you?! WELL- if you are having a bad “today”, feel free to message me via email and I can inform you if tomorrow will be better. I mean with a 15 hour difference (myself being ahead) WE might as well use this to our advantage.  J

What more do I know since the last time we spoke… Not a whole lot. I still do not have a guaranteed home, but I have a few leads- in which I am confident to say at least one of them will suit me!  I have also made a few friends. They all seem sincerely spectacular. I really look forward to this next chapter in my life- although, it really began a couple months back. Its crazy- its like I will be creating my own version of “Eat Pray Love”.  If I had to title mine TODAY it would be my personal motto I have had for a couple of years now, “Love Respect Experience”.

LOVE- I think it’s the most splendid thing. I feel like it really is a feeling that cannot be defined any one way because we all experience/feel it so differently. The way I love my best friends is different than the way I have loved my ex-boyfriends and that is different than the way I love my parents & brothers which is definitely different from the way I love my holidays etc. – Open your Heart.

RESPECT- What comes to my mind when I hear this word is, treat others the way you want to be treated. Treat people with a genuine kindness and if you need to reschedule a-get-together inform them within a timely fashion. But also for example, just because someone has a job you see as a low level position- it does not mean you can demand them to do things for you due to your “authority” PLEASE. Ever, heard of Karma- there is a Yin to every Yang. I guess just be Aware – Open your Eyes.

EXPERIENCE- DO THINGS with YOUR LIFE. Go Skydiving. Fall IN and OUT of Love. Feel/Smell/Taste/See/Listen to the Ocean. Carve a Pumpkin. Volunteer. Pay it Forward. Backpack through Europe and sleep on a Train til your next destination. Buy a Stranger Coffee. Bake a Soufflé. Do a Kind Act for a Friend for No Reason besides Just Because. Just do something with your life so you do not waste time regretting. – Open your Mind.

I look forward to the opportunity to Love, Respect, & Experience Australia.

“In the end, I've come to believe in something I call "The Physics of the Quest." A force in nature governed by laws as real as the laws of gravity. The rule of Quest Physics goes something like this: If you're brave enough to leave behind everything familiar and comforting, which can be anything from your house to bitter, old resentments, and set out on a truth-seeking journey, either externally or internally, and if you are truly willing to regard everything that happens to you on that journey as a clue and if you accept everyone you meet along the way as a teacher and if you are prepared, most of all, to face and forgive some very difficult realities about yourself, then the truth will not be withheld from you. “- Eat Pray Love