When the goal is to follow the summer for a year and half and the rain persists for a week straight, I start to appreciate the often taken for granted days we have a shade to sit in. Rainy season in the Philippines means days of full shade from cloud cover and wet feet from puddled sidewalks. Today, I'm watching the rain with gratitude for teaching me to take a deep breath, sit back and enjoy doing absolutely nothing! Or better yet, take a deep breath and enjoy doing whatever the hell I please. I'll even dare admit that it's taken me these eight months we've been on the road to now finally allow myself to throw out the expectations I've placed on making the most of each place we visit, by doing and seeing as much as we can in each location. Of course we want to experience a place for what it has and enjoy as many facets of it as we want, but there's a delicate balance I'm finding in being on vacation and seeing the world.
I am finding this lesson can be applied equally to my entire life. I remember how I would so often run around always have something to do or get done. Even if there wasn't something to do I would find or create something. I'll even admit to making a mess or leaving things out so that I would later have something to re-organize. I was the queen of finding advice for people even if it was unsolicited, I almost always had something to throw in of an opinion. I'm not sure if i'm abnormal in these traits or not but it doesn't really matter does it, because it's what I did. I am now however, through these lessons and my greatest life teachers, learning to sit back and allow other people to live life the way they choose. In doing so I'm able to enjoy my life and the results of my own creations with a deeper focus and appreciation for the details. I feel freer already and it's only been just a few days with this fresh out-look.
Rain, like any form of water, has a profound calming affect on my physique. Maybe it's because I'm a firry Aries quenched by water, or I can feel Mother Earth's energy cleansed by Father's Sky's love. The reason is unimportant but the affect is unequivocal. And so I thank the Philippines for sharing with me this lovely tropical storm so that I can learn a lesson or two. And it helps to have an understanding and calm partner who's the perfect Yin to my Yang.
I am learning to live my life on the road rather than making this trip a mission to see and do as much as possible. And by the time i've perfected the art, it will be time to return to "the real world" where I will be able to apply the exact same lessons.
Ps. Our camera broke a few weeks ago so no photo's until we get to a city again and look into having it repaired. xoxo
I am finding this lesson can be applied equally to my entire life. I remember how I would so often run around always have something to do or get done. Even if there wasn't something to do I would find or create something. I'll even admit to making a mess or leaving things out so that I would later have something to re-organize. I was the queen of finding advice for people even if it was unsolicited, I almost always had something to throw in of an opinion. I'm not sure if i'm abnormal in these traits or not but it doesn't really matter does it, because it's what I did. I am now however, through these lessons and my greatest life teachers, learning to sit back and allow other people to live life the way they choose. In doing so I'm able to enjoy my life and the results of my own creations with a deeper focus and appreciation for the details. I feel freer already and it's only been just a few days with this fresh out-look.
Rain, like any form of water, has a profound calming affect on my physique. Maybe it's because I'm a firry Aries quenched by water, or I can feel Mother Earth's energy cleansed by Father's Sky's love. The reason is unimportant but the affect is unequivocal. And so I thank the Philippines for sharing with me this lovely tropical storm so that I can learn a lesson or two. And it helps to have an understanding and calm partner who's the perfect Yin to my Yang.
I am learning to live my life on the road rather than making this trip a mission to see and do as much as possible. And by the time i've perfected the art, it will be time to return to "the real world" where I will be able to apply the exact same lessons.
Ps. Our camera broke a few weeks ago so no photo's until we get to a city again and look into having it repaired. xoxo
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