Meanwhile, I Keep Dancing

Sometimes all we can do is put one foot in front of the other when the world shifts. Just keep walking. In another blog I kept I talked about my experience  getting ready for a long multi month trip in Europe with a boyfriend at the time. The plan was quit our jobs, travel around 6 months, and then move somewhere together or come back and start a new life. Together, it was implied. What ended up happening is another story, for another time. One I am sure to tell here, within the electronic pages of this ephemeral book.  Being now on the other side of it, it seems like a dream. Some parts of my life are exactly the same as before I left, and some parts...well, I've said goodbye to them. But writing, ah, I see you on the horizon and I'm taking steps towards you again! One word in front of the next. So here I am, another project. 30 days, each day a different new poem. Taken from random places of inspiration. I'm looking forward to the ride, and I hope you...

Travel is something I want to do a great deal of, and for starters I really really want to go to Ghana, Africa. At this point it isn't so much that I need to go there, specifically, but as it is my intended trip this summer, I very much want to see it through, financially, physically, and emotionally. I need to complete this goal I have. Because I am not very good at completing things. I lose focus if I am working on something for an extended period. The "Ooo, shiny!" mentality. And also a fear of change, and an insecurity of my skills and talents. I want to back out now, even with the $200 already deposited, but I know I can't. I know I must move forward with this plan. I think I have the strength for this trip. This is my second to last day of this challenge, and that is fantastic. So, one step at a time I will get to you, Ghana. I will get there.

The funny thing about turning points in life, it's usually in retrospect that we recognize them for what they are. At the time of them happening, when we either decide yay or nay, choose one road or the other, it just seems like a choice. It doesn't feel like the fulcrum on which your life will spin. But sometimes a choice that you make, one that is so different from anything you have done before, then you  know. I've made one of those. It was when I decided to send in my $200 to ProWorld and reserved my place as a volunteer going to Ghana. Traveling hasn't been a big part of my life. I've done it in little spurts, but nothing for this length of time (a month) and this far away( Cape Coast, Ghana, Africa). In my picture I've created the future that once I travel there, I'll be traveling everywhere else next. I don't know if I will for sure. Heck, I don't know at all what direction my future will take. But I do know it will change.