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.