I'm not always good at living in the moment and often find myself either looking forward to future events or reminiscing about past ones. For instance, I love holding on to movie stubs, museum tickets, gig flyers and restaurant receipts because they're a reminder of past experiences. I keep them all in metal boxes and then go over my memories once in a while. Slightly weird...? Anyway, all of this is about to change! From now on I'm determined to live in the here & now, seize the day, smell the roses etc. The biggest difference will be that I'll no longer stock up on endless piles of travel books/magazines in preparation of our post-2010 Big Trip. Oh dear, what to focus on instead? Well, there's Vaughan, friends, (volunteer) work, possible study, and lots of other projects to get stuck into - all of them pretty exciting (one might even involve a mortgage...). We are planning a very short getaway over Queen's Birthday weekend but that doesn't count, right :-)?
About Me
- Inge
- Wellington, New Zealand
- For the past decade I have wandered the globe a bit, leaving my homecountry Belgium in 1999 to first study in Australia and the US and to later end up in beautiful New Zealand because of a chance meeting with a lovely Kiwi guy, now my husband. In July 2005 we packed our bags once more to experience the JET-life in Fukuoka, Japan. Those two years flew by and after several months in Europe & China we returned to good old Aotearoa. After nearly three years of living a semi-settled life in the capital Wellington, I'm now off on a six-month journey through East Africa and the Middle East. No idea what to expect but stay tuned for news from the road...
Mondo Beyondo
2 comments:
I keep everything ... and live in the now. But living in the now seems to create its own memory loss in me. I am wandering a lot and the keepsakes let me remember. I should confess, that whenever I have time, everything is glued into a black moleskin journal for poring over ... just in case, Inge.
Good luck with the mortgage idea and have fun on the get-away. It counts and reads truly delicious.
Thanks for the regular comments, Di (you're pretty much the only one these days)! I have no idea where you find the time; you're obviously a master at multitasking :-).
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