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YALL. LIVE JOURNAL was a renaissance back in high school/college. I was reading back and I WAS SO SOCIAL. In a post-COVID world it's just NOT as much of a reality. But FO REAL. I was such a productive member of society and such a social butterfly. I'd hang out with people on the daily. Now, if I see one friend in a week that was a busy social week for me. Lives used to be so much more intertwined in school. You'd learn together, eat together, do after school activities together like marching band, trivia, church etc.
I don't know why I thought if I just started typing something *important* would fly from my fingers fed by my brain, but clearly not so much.
Where I am now. I just recently got back from a cruise that started in Athens, Greece. I spent 2 full days in Israel and swam in the Dead Sea with a family with three girls who have been ALL over the world. They travel with their kids during the summer and the litter girl sat in the front of the small bus near me as she gets car sick. She's been to Thailand, they're going to school in Germany before I think it was, in addition to all over Europe. She didn't realize really how much of a privilege it is to have been to so many countries haha but she will as she gets older because she's seen so much of the world. It was a true joy to swim in the Dead Sea with them. Everyone says you're so bouyant, and you are. Its salinity is 33% while the ocean is around 3.5% sooo, it's a lot. But it is easy to swim, they say you can't but if you're a swimmer you can float with legs crossed and swim around.
Re-visiting one of my favorite countries in the world Turkiye and walking around Istanbul for a day was a true treat. It's such a unique city and I find mosques to be such beautifully constructed buildings. I truly love the feeling of being in a new place every day. My PCOS has taken a lot of the joy I used to experience in life with hormonal fluctuations, depression, and insulin resistance and mood issues. I wish I was as vibrant as I once felt.
I am sitting here watching The Voice and I've been re-living my teenage years, and how social I was with Sarah and Aaron down the street, as well as my high school friends Angela, Patricia, Jeff, Stephanie, Erik, Dev, many of whom I don't talk with currently and wish I could (some relationships have been irrevocably severed though). As well as Mary and David from church. It was nice to see how much life I lived with these people and how precious these years were. Hanging out at Barnes and Noble for Harry Potter book releases was such an experience that the store reached max capacity and a police officer had to limit who entered XD
The excitement I had starting college is a thrill to re-live.
This is totally stream of consciousness but as an ENFP I ALWAYS have a bucketlist. Here's my current one:
Skinny dip outdoors
Food fight
Ice bath
Have a conversation with a homeless person
Sit with a stranger at a restaurant
Start a business
Take a martial arts class
Parasail
Be an extra in a movie or TV show
Crash a wedding
Cosplay
Attend a randomly picked FB event
Be in a combat zone
Volunteer with SANCOOB in South Africa and treat penguins
Live in Japan for 3 months +
Buy a duplex and rent out half
Visit a new country every year
I don't know why I thought if I just started typing something *important* would fly from my fingers fed by my brain, but clearly not so much.
Where I am now. I just recently got back from a cruise that started in Athens, Greece. I spent 2 full days in Israel and swam in the Dead Sea with a family with three girls who have been ALL over the world. They travel with their kids during the summer and the litter girl sat in the front of the small bus near me as she gets car sick. She's been to Thailand, they're going to school in Germany before I think it was, in addition to all over Europe. She didn't realize really how much of a privilege it is to have been to so many countries haha but she will as she gets older because she's seen so much of the world. It was a true joy to swim in the Dead Sea with them. Everyone says you're so bouyant, and you are. Its salinity is 33% while the ocean is around 3.5% sooo, it's a lot. But it is easy to swim, they say you can't but if you're a swimmer you can float with legs crossed and swim around.
Re-visiting one of my favorite countries in the world Turkiye and walking around Istanbul for a day was a true treat. It's such a unique city and I find mosques to be such beautifully constructed buildings. I truly love the feeling of being in a new place every day. My PCOS has taken a lot of the joy I used to experience in life with hormonal fluctuations, depression, and insulin resistance and mood issues. I wish I was as vibrant as I once felt.
I am sitting here watching The Voice and I've been re-living my teenage years, and how social I was with Sarah and Aaron down the street, as well as my high school friends Angela, Patricia, Jeff, Stephanie, Erik, Dev, many of whom I don't talk with currently and wish I could (some relationships have been irrevocably severed though). As well as Mary and David from church. It was nice to see how much life I lived with these people and how precious these years were. Hanging out at Barnes and Noble for Harry Potter book releases was such an experience that the store reached max capacity and a police officer had to limit who entered XD
The excitement I had starting college is a thrill to re-live.
This is totally stream of consciousness but as an ENFP I ALWAYS have a bucketlist. Here's my current one:
Skinny dip outdoors
Food fight
Ice bath
Have a conversation with a homeless person
Sit with a stranger at a restaurant
Start a business
Take a martial arts class
Parasail
Be an extra in a movie or TV show
Crash a wedding
Cosplay
Attend a randomly picked FB event
Be in a combat zone
Volunteer with SANCOOB in South Africa and treat penguins
Live in Japan for 3 months +
Buy a duplex and rent out half
Visit a new country every year