I’m back. Back? Used to life here. Yes. Same as I was. No.
Learned a lot. Always.
I write this as the curtains are closing on my summer and Barcelona and my time abroad feels like it was a dream. Leaving this lifestyle and becoming accustomed to another culture in Spain, only to later assimilate back to the lifestyle I had just feels funny. I remember my first days home being blown away at the comfort that we live in and think of as so regular. Our fluffy pillows and blankets, our once worn socks that are tossed down the laundry shoot without a thought, or how we have so many of our favorite things around us that we find disappointment in choosing one for the way we have sacrificed others. Truly first world problems.
I write this as the curtains are closing on my summer and Barcelona and my time abroad feels like it was a dream. Leaving this lifestyle and becoming accustomed to another culture in Spain, only to later assimilate back to the lifestyle I had just feels funny. I remember my first days home being blown away at the comfort that we live in and think of as so regular. Our fluffy pillows and blankets, our once worn socks that are tossed down the laundry shoot without a thought, or how we have so many of our favorite things around us that we find disappointment in choosing one for the way we have sacrificed others. Truly first world problems.
Changes
of what kind? I may not be entirely sure. However I do know that certain changes
only come about by cetain practices. Planting certain seeds bears particular
fruits. I know abroad that I experienced so many worthwhile things and that in
my free time I filled it with worthwhile things as well. Reading, writing,
drawing, singing, conversing, exploring, adventuring, seeing old things in new
ways…These are all things which I did both alone and with people, in the silent
of our upstairs loft in Spain, and in the bustle of downtown Barcelona. They
are the things that change how I walk now, how I read now, how I write now, how
I draw now, how I sing now, how I converse now, how I go exploring now, how I
adventure now, and how I see things now.
Grateful always,
Cody