At the beginning of our gap year - June of 2023 - I was overwhelmed by all the decision I felt I needed to make. One such decision was about social media. It felt like I had to choose between experiencing my year or documenting it, and for what? It can be a double edged sword to "capture" a moment. To collect our experiences in images and words is precious, but in so doing, it can also remove us from the very moment we’re trying to preserve. I wanted to find a balance.
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On Finding Home & Reading Marie Kondo
It amazes me how stuff can build up in a home. Life is busy, and it seems like such a luxury to consider the things we surround ourselves with. But in my efforts to live a life on purpose, my "footprint" is something I'm acutely aware of.
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Success Wasn’t What I Thought It Was…
We all want to do something meaningful with our lives. How we define that varies wildly. But it could be said that we all want to leave this earth feeling like we’ve done something worth remembering. It might be for self serving purposes, especially in our younger years, but over time, we seem to develop a desire to leave something of a legacy behind - one that presents us in a light that feels “successful.”
