Well here I am back home again and honestly, I can't even believe how much this experience has impacted me. I set out on this adventure with really only one goal: to have fun. I was looking for a new experience, to see the world, to experience new things. But I wasn't trying to change my life or anything. I wasn't try to figure it all out... I was just trying to have fun. But I wanted it bad. I wanted all of it really, really bad. I wanted adventure, I wanted to just go out there and experience life. So I worked really hard to get there. The semester before I went was a nightmare but it was worth it because I was working towards something I really wanted. When I got to Greece, it was seriously everything I had hoped for; but it was also so much more. I never expected to get anything "real" out of the experience and not only did I have an amazing experience through my internship, I figured out what I wanted to do with my life. It was like I put in all that hard work for a pretty shallow goal and it ended up propelling me towards something really meaningful. Once I stared moving towards something, anything, I just kept moving and life kept moving along with me. All of my usual distractions and safety buffers were gone and it was just me finding the world as I actually wanted it to be, the life I wanted to create. I pursued adventure for the experience and thrill of it and found that sometimes adventure push you towards deep, meaningful things you never imagined.
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