Life is about perspective...
wow, what an amazing week.
I could live my life like this...roaming from place to place, discovering myself in everyone and everything surrounding me. This week could not have played more perfectly.
I learned to be me, without the influence of others, or the crutch of accompanying personalities. I was forced to be me, and in that I found out that although it took some time to break out of my shell I really could be an interesting person (that was not intended in an egotiscal way, just in an exsisting way). I went to the area I love most took a day taking it in, then spent a day making my marks! Then I came to Austin and found myself more comfotable in a new enviroment, talking to people I would typically avoid, paying attention to those I would have intentionally ignored. I was just new, a lighter Jess...still with it's kinks, but those will be ironed out in time. Then spent the evening and morning visiting with my uncle on insight, he is a terrific person with perspective. He holds so much worldly knowledge! I talked to him about my dreams, and hopes in my life. About how nature just seems to continue pulling me one way, while society points me another. It is all about perspective, he says.
It's a bittersweet feeling leaving for home today. I am more than eager to see Jordan, and family. But I'm not so eager to return to my dull Lubbock lifestyle and continue my attempts at making the best of it (I really want to start making hemp necklaces and bracelets again). But it makes it easier on me to know that my travels for the next couple of months will not end with this!
May 19th-May21st: Houston, TX
June 1-June 3: San Antonio, TX
June 10-17: Caribbean
Then the summer...who knows what I will find there...
Then Nov. 21-25: Return to Mexico
I will leave you for now as I hit the road with Robert Frost (and one more picture post will follow on my myspace blog when I get home tonight, it will include my night, my morning, and my return home):
The Road Not Taken
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20
I could live my life like this...roaming from place to place, discovering myself in everyone and everything surrounding me. This week could not have played more perfectly.
I learned to be me, without the influence of others, or the crutch of accompanying personalities. I was forced to be me, and in that I found out that although it took some time to break out of my shell I really could be an interesting person (that was not intended in an egotiscal way, just in an exsisting way). I went to the area I love most took a day taking it in, then spent a day making my marks! Then I came to Austin and found myself more comfotable in a new enviroment, talking to people I would typically avoid, paying attention to those I would have intentionally ignored. I was just new, a lighter Jess...still with it's kinks, but those will be ironed out in time. Then spent the evening and morning visiting with my uncle on insight, he is a terrific person with perspective. He holds so much worldly knowledge! I talked to him about my dreams, and hopes in my life. About how nature just seems to continue pulling me one way, while society points me another. It is all about perspective, he says.
It's a bittersweet feeling leaving for home today. I am more than eager to see Jordan, and family. But I'm not so eager to return to my dull Lubbock lifestyle and continue my attempts at making the best of it (I really want to start making hemp necklaces and bracelets again). But it makes it easier on me to know that my travels for the next couple of months will not end with this!
May 19th-May21st: Houston, TX
June 1-June 3: San Antonio, TX
June 10-17: Caribbean
Then the summer...who knows what I will find there...
Then Nov. 21-25: Return to Mexico
I will leave you for now as I hit the road with Robert Frost (and one more picture post will follow on my myspace blog when I get home tonight, it will include my night, my morning, and my return home):
The Road Not Taken
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth; 5
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same, 10
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back. 15
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference. 20