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What a crazy day.
What a crazy week.
What a crazy month.
What a crazy life.
Sometimes, I just need to stop and to reflect.
One year ago Tim and I decided we should travel somewhere. By Christmas we booked a return flight to Frankfurt and a flight from Paris to Nairobi and a flight from Zanzibar back to Frankfurt. Two days before Valentines Day, right when I found out I was getting a temporary promotion into a Manager job, we decided to get married. The next few months were a whirlwind of work-related stuff, brain-storming about a wedding, and planning our trip. By the time we left on our trip on April 15th we had a venue booked for the wedding, I was in a new role at work, and we were ready for our adventure. The trip was everything we wanted and more. Europe was amazing in it's own way and Africa was amazing in it's own (and very different) way. 7 weeks later we were home, barely over jet lag and deciding to move into a new apartment. Now we are in the new place and the world continues to spin faster than I can imagine.
Over the spring and summer we had 3 good couple friends break-up. Some seem to be back together (?), others are stumbling through it, and Tim and I are feeling the effects of that in our social circle. Some of our closest friends are thinking about moving away from Victoria. This is something we have experienced here time and time again. No one stays in Victoria, except us. The idea of making new friends and working hard to maintain more long-distance friendships makes me tired. And to make matters worse, some friends may be forced to move away because of negative situations that they cannot control. I hate goodbyes and I hate that with every new goodbye comes loneliness, comes the work of skype-dates and phone calls, and often comes the distance that is hard to mend.
At work this week things have been crazy - hiring freezes, managing friends, and trying to imagine the future of my organization. I want to yell at everyone to slow down. To go back to their offices and think. To give me time to think. But even when I have my office door closed there is so much more to occupy my mind than work. The house. The wedding. Friendships close and far. Tim's work. Tim's family. My family. Our family.
I need to make some space for myself. Some space to think and reflect. Some space to really enjoy some of the amazing things in my life, but maybe also some time to feel sad because everything changes.
What a crazy week.
What a crazy month.
What a crazy life.
Sometimes, I just need to stop and to reflect.
One year ago Tim and I decided we should travel somewhere. By Christmas we booked a return flight to Frankfurt and a flight from Paris to Nairobi and a flight from Zanzibar back to Frankfurt. Two days before Valentines Day, right when I found out I was getting a temporary promotion into a Manager job, we decided to get married. The next few months were a whirlwind of work-related stuff, brain-storming about a wedding, and planning our trip. By the time we left on our trip on April 15th we had a venue booked for the wedding, I was in a new role at work, and we were ready for our adventure. The trip was everything we wanted and more. Europe was amazing in it's own way and Africa was amazing in it's own (and very different) way. 7 weeks later we were home, barely over jet lag and deciding to move into a new apartment. Now we are in the new place and the world continues to spin faster than I can imagine.
Over the spring and summer we had 3 good couple friends break-up. Some seem to be back together (?), others are stumbling through it, and Tim and I are feeling the effects of that in our social circle. Some of our closest friends are thinking about moving away from Victoria. This is something we have experienced here time and time again. No one stays in Victoria, except us. The idea of making new friends and working hard to maintain more long-distance friendships makes me tired. And to make matters worse, some friends may be forced to move away because of negative situations that they cannot control. I hate goodbyes and I hate that with every new goodbye comes loneliness, comes the work of skype-dates and phone calls, and often comes the distance that is hard to mend.
At work this week things have been crazy - hiring freezes, managing friends, and trying to imagine the future of my organization. I want to yell at everyone to slow down. To go back to their offices and think. To give me time to think. But even when I have my office door closed there is so much more to occupy my mind than work. The house. The wedding. Friendships close and far. Tim's work. Tim's family. My family. Our family.
I need to make some space for myself. Some space to think and reflect. Some space to really enjoy some of the amazing things in my life, but maybe also some time to feel sad because everything changes.