After just over a year of living in the desert and a world nothing like the one I had lived in all my life, I have discovered that my recent adventure was probably a little like the Half Time of a football game. While I hope it’s not exactly the halfway point and I hope to live longer than it would suggest, it could be that halfway point. It’s the point where you can look in the mirror and self asses a little bit. It’s that time when you look at what you thought you knew and figure out just how much you don’t. It’s a turning point where you realize that there are very less fortunate people in the world that have a life that is much harder than your own. It’s also that point where you can make a decision to change your life’s course and do those things you have been meaning to do forever. It’s when you realize that life isn’t going to slow down and tomorrow may never come or even more often, it does come and today is that tomorrow you put off yesterday.
Whatever the case, my halftime has arrived and while I know that there will be more life events that will deepen this view, I see things differently and I think more clearly than I did before. Colors are brighter, life unfolding around me has more meaning and the daily business of living isn’t as stressful as it once was.
I’m thankful that 18 months ago, I was presented and opportunity and started moving towards what has become one of the best adventures and life changing events in my short existence on this planet. It now drives me to find out more. I know that not everyone gets such an opportunity but I hope to make the best of mine and maybe inspire you to take a chance if you are given one and make the best of yours. Just remember that no one can really tell you enough to change your own life as much as you living it.