I’ve been here three times before, at the bookends of trips long and short. This time, Rome meets me somewhere in the middle of my journey abroad with no end date reserved, and it feels different. I’m staying with my girlfriend right next to Termini station, a dingy neighborhood that reminds me of my home […]
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I wrote this a few months ago, and I thought I’d share it now that my work is paying off. 🙂 January… This year I’m bouncing around jobs as a social working child parking meter, in school and writing as best I can, saving all my checks until I get to the starting line. It’s
Priorities are hard to manage. They get covered up by unnecessary complications. They grow long shadows, prone to paralyze action. When this happens, it’s important to remember that things should be simple. They say it takes twenty-one days to settle into a new routine. I’ve been in Europe for thirty days now, and I’m wrapping
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Passion sets us off. It kicks the home out of the body, points it down the road, and encourages the discovery of horizons far from our door. It is the magic of life, and it deserves to be followed. If you do, life will surprise you with its beauty.
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Why do I hold onto the idea that doing “more productive” things that I rarely do will make me happy? Every day I wake up thinking of what I have to do, or what I should do, more precisely, and after compiling this list I go about living with it constantly hovering over my head.
I am at the start of a trip I cannot begin to fathom, the precipice of departure—at the gate of my hometown airport.
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The number of things you have to do only reveals itself when you know you’ll be gone. People have meditated on this thought through the lens of death, and it makes me wonder, is this upcoming trip the death of myself?
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Hear me out: thoughts are attention-seeking. They want to be heard, want to be found, just like the one ring forged in the fires of Mount Doom. Sideline, is this why the ring and mountain are separated from the eye? I know Tolkien didn’t like allegory, but I’m digging this perspective. Ahem. Okay, okay. So
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At the end of this month, I’m leaving the United States, and I don’t know when I’ll be back.
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Life is hard to navigate, especially if you don’t know where to take it, what to commit to, or who you are. But there are things to do and listen to that can help you uncover yourself through the minutiae of today, tomorrow, and yesterday’s obligations. In my life, writing stories, building a website, and
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