Choices, decisions and other life changing things
It’s been quiet on the bog I know. Months have passed without a word and more than one of you has sent emails and text messages asking if I’m okay and if life is going well. I assure you that all is EXTREMELY well. Not smooth but so well that I am aware that I am living the best part of my life - right now! I have been stock piling photos and thoughts and all sorts to share with you. The thing is, everything has been going at the speed of sound and I have not carved the time necessary to reduce all the experiences (and recipes) to organized coherent thoughts.
As I am enjoying a rainy afternoon during my first vacation in Switzerland I think its past time. I’m going to attempt to update the whole blog each day while on my mountain top (literal and metaphorical). We will flash back and forward in attempts to take you on this part of my journey. I hope you enjoy journeying with me.
I arrived in the small Swiss mountain village of Sobrio yesterday afternoon. Something about having a vacation after the nonstop of setting up a new life makes this mini break so savory. It’s been one year and one month to the day since I pulled up stakes and left Saudi Arabia to start a new chapter. Consciously closing a door and opening a new one has been unsettling to say the least. Its’s like being a kid, psyching yourself up to jump off something really high. It needs to be done, but how will you land? This is the question. I am pleased to inform you that while not all has been perfectly smooth, I have tucked and rolled and sort of managed a landing that hasn’t resulted in broken bones and abject disaster.
It took a lot of guts for me though. I’m no stranger to starting again. From nothing. At the bottom. But age makes it more tiring somehow. Three suitcases, my laptop, mobile phone and one or two books… that’s it but instead of being a teen or a twenty something I’m just a few years from forty. Starting again… adjusting to a new language and new systems of living and smiling one’s way though banking hiccups and the bureaucratic back and forth while absorbing social, cultural, occupational and friendship cues, while balancing my spiritual needs, family relationships and my relentless ambition... has been enough to leave me paralyzed on a Sunday in full Netflix and chill mode.
It takes a great good deal of effort to live a good life.
I don’t know where I got that saying from but it is something I’ve been saying for years now. All the choices, decisions, and other life changing things that I have done in the past year, and indeed for most of my life have been in in pursuit of the best life possible. It is a very personal commitment to myself — no matter the discomfort to take this gift of life and live well.
Are you thinking about making some big life decisions? Perhaps something is happening in your life that is causing you to change. Let’s explore it together. Please leave your thoughts in the comments section below. I look forward to hearing from you!