Posts tagged new zealand
2019 in Three Acts

Best year of my life?

I can sum up the year with the word effortless, despite the fact that it also managed to be one of my most challenging. It was definitely not easy. It was definitely a lot of fun.

It’s hard for me to separate things from each other. I rarely draw hard lines; colors blur, feelings mix, and everything affects everything else. Though this means I tend to live viscerally and feel intensely (which I’ve concluded after much reflection is an overall positive thing, though horrifically inconvenient at certain times), it also means that life can be extra messy. This has been a messy, free-flowing year. But mess isn’t always a bad thing.

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Ocean Waves, Soy Sauce, and Other Salty Things

As I write this, I’m still in Japan. I think it’s a good thing that my return to solo travel happened in Tokyo, because Tokyo is a really easy place to get distracted in. When I’m sad I like to be distracted, just a little bit. Julien Solomita (youtuber and ½ of the Jenna + Julien Podcast) once said, “My serenity is chaos.” Even though I’m not an Aries, I relate to that. I’m comforted by being another face in a large crowd. I’m also not 100% against being just a bit gloomy –  like, I don’t completely hate feeling the ache.  

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