We start anew often in our human existence. Last week, I was supporting a friend as she started the process of a divorce. An ending, but a new beginning. Why is it so hard to go through a divorce which we wished for for so long? Is it the saying goodbye to what we believed in, dreamed together, and the goals that we were working towards? We often still love the person, it is just that the love and dreams take on a different meaning. As sad as it can be at first, it is a cause for celebration. It is a transformation of ourselves. Hooray!
Rilke, a profound poet and writer said, “Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.” Rainer Maria Rilke
- Become a member of AAA -my travel companion and I spent the entire last day of vacation traveling including 2 calls to AAA and an hour tow
- Spend more time exploring, less time relaxing in the hotel room. It’s so fun to do nothing but read and relax..but you can miss stuff that way.
- Find out what the area is famous for and try it out, whether it be “southern cooking”, art, music. We danced nearly every night!
- Travel with a fun person – my friend was game for anything. This is a plus.
- Ask someone to dance – there were so many people to dance with and I had every intention of dancing every dance.
- Go someplace warmer than where you live… it was cold out there in Asheville.
What are you going to do differently from now on?
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So many good travel tips in this post!
So…What am I going to do differently from now on? Well…January 2011 was not a great month for me. The winter doldrums just got me. The cold, the ice, the post-Christmas let-down, my significant other’s encroaching illness… Whatever the cause, I wasn’t feeling like myself. Near the end of the month, I decided that what I needed was play to snap out of it. I pulled out my Barbies (I have quite the collection) and created a masterful diorama of Alive in Wonderland -complete with Cheshire Cat & Hookah-smoking Caterpillar! It filled me with joy as I hunted for the appropriate jacket for the Rabbit and for the perfect watch and chain… I was so proud of myself when I figured out how to mount the mushrooms onto my miniature magical landscape.
Filled with glee, I decided to throw a dinner party for my friends & show off my new creation. This entailed throwing myself into organizing the entire downstairs, which was still in disarray after the whole Christmas fiasco. Furniture reorganized, plants rid of dead leaves, bench by the fireplace… Wow! The house looks great! Next, I organized a “Thank God It’s Friday” party for my dearest girlfriends. The fun just kept going.
So here we are in February…it’s even colder and icier and my man is spending even more time getting over chemo treatments, but I have vowed to do something differently from now on. I will place play back into my life with the fervor of a child! I have vowed to do something fun everyday and to surround myself with fun people whenever I can. So guess what I’m doing this Saturday? My scrapbooking friends are coming over wearing silly hats & we are having a Mad-Hatter Tea Party and spending the afternoon making Valentine Cards in my new scrapbooking studio! (Which you, dear Clutter Queen helped me organize!)
Hi Eniko, I enjoy streamlining my travel experiences so I can get it all done and enjoy the spontaneity available around me. Sounds like organizing, having fun and making each day an adventure is a fantastic way to celebrate your life, enjoy!
I’m playing more! And I plan to make a conscious effort to keep play in my daily life. Another change I am planning to make (I actually started this at the beginning of the month) is to keep a record of every fun thing that I do every day and pop it into a photo journal. January felt like such a dull month, that I hardly even remembered any fun that I did have, so I’m planning to snap a quick photo of every fun thing I do every day, or save the movie ticket stub, or at least jot a quick note about something fun I did that day. I’ve ordered some plastic baseball card holders to go into a 3-ring binder & a small photo, or memento, or note will be entered into each slot in calendar fashion as I fill each month with fun!