Look - verb: to use one's sight or vision in seeking, searching, examining or watching
A lot of things have changed in my life over the past year. My first serious relationship. Graduation from college. Moving home. My best friend got married. Flying on my own. Working a full time job. Paying bills. Over time life settles into a routine and the new becomes just ordinary. I walk the same sidewalks to work every day. Drive home taking the same route. Eat dinner and spend time with family. Occasionally I will have evening plans with friends. To most people that's life as usual but I guess I'm tired of the normal and I crave exciting. Anything to break up the sameness.
This is about the time that my mind gets to wandering. I think about what life holds for me in the future. I love to dream about an apartment of my own. Where I can paint a wall. Shop for little knick knacks to decorate with. Hang pictures of the people I love. Adopt a pet. Cook dinner for myself. Have a big girl job. Be the only one responsible for me. It never fails to cheer me up. But then comes the waiting. I don't have those things yet and I don't know when I'll get them.
Recently I heard someone talking about vision. And one of the comments they made really stuck with me - We need a vision to get us where we are going in the future; but we need to balance seeing the here and now along the way or down the road we will wonder what we missed out on while we were focused ahead. So I am choosing to enjoy this season of life, including all the routines, because I don't want to look back one day and wonder what adventures might have been right under my nose the whole time.
I've been feeling and going through a lot of the same things, Emily. I love that you're learning to appreciate each stage of life that you're in. I think that's really important because once you've moved on, it's pretty hard to ever get it back.
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