5 Months on the Road
We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves.
I have been on the road for over 5 months. I’ve visited 14 cities in that time and will be revisiting a few more in the next month.
There is a lot to traveling and when it began I didn’t really know where it was going or where I was going. Not just in an uncertain sense of what city I would visit next but where I was going in my life. I wanted to lose myself.
I was just starting to deal with the loss of my best friend / girl friend from almost a year prior, I had a lot of emotional baggage tying me down to bad habits in life; with people, with money, with myself and my health.
In these five months I have built a blog on Lifestyle Design and started working on networking and writing for it seriously. I have taken control of my finances and paid down a good chunk of credit card debt that I accumulated last year. I have helped spread the love of dance and the passion for life that it has given me. I have undertaken a serious learning project to create an online business within three months. I have spent many great nights with friends, many days alone in cafes, many hours on planes, buses and trains.
Most importantly I remember going to bed one night after teaching in Cleveland, OH with Joanna and feeling supremely at peace. It was definitely not like that not so long ago.
I woke up at some point about a year ago and I was exceptionally unhappy. I was working long hours and making decent money, traveling to dance a lot on weekends, and neglecting the most important person who I shared my life with. I was drinking too often. I was running from my life. I knew I needed to change things.
It’s almost been a year and change has come.
I have changed and my world has changed. I have found myself.
I am willing to take risks and dive into my days to make them meaningful to me. I am finding a new joy in working, in teaching, in writing. I want to share my passion for life as art, to create my life deliberately and reflectively.
I want to spread the art of living. Through dance. Through words. Through friends. Through sharing time. Through sharing space.
Today I am alive. Tomorrow I will be somewhere else but I’ll have a passion, a purpose, dreams and values that I hold to, that guide my decisions.
