Home and Away

There's things you learn about yourself only when you are removed from your normal day-in-day-out routine.
Things you may have never known, or known but forgotten, about your values, your strengths, your vulnerabilities....

I've been away from home for a week. It's been a productive week, work-wise. It's been a difficult and draining week, too.
But more than anything - it's been an educating week.

I'm headed home now, on the first flight of two - delayed by three ours, my connection about to be missed - and with those things being out my control, I'm trying to just.... be. One of the things I've discovered this week that I actually *can* do, when I choose to.

I'm coming home (eventually) with a rediscovered familiarity of myself.. and I like who I've uncovered in me: not just for the strengths and the securities, but also for the vulnerabilities that I didn't bother covering up.

I am who I am, and it's a good thing.

And with that new found realization - I just want to go home now to my boy, to my man, to my safety zone.

Is the world slowing down?

Is the world slowing down?

Lately I've been coincidentally running into many people from my history... People I hadn't seen in years or even decades - who have given up the fast-paced-ego-driven-pocket-filling lives, for something else.

One, an ex-renown photographer has become a full time volunteer, working with disabled children. He seems more at peace than he ever was.

Another, my ex-boss and a role model for female ambition, up until recently a CEO in a software startup, is learning patisserie and excitedly talking about powdered sugar. (She looks like a million dollars, too).

Another yet has decided to take a few years break in his career and is studying film and art, as well as alternative medicine. He lost a lot of weight.

They all look rested. happy. blissful.

Part on me envies them, and another pities them.

Is the universe trying to tell me something?