Tomorrow, I depart for Europe!
Today, we discuss the kind of person I am and want to be.
Last weekend, I played a volleyball tournament all Saturday where you switched teams every game—it was really fun, and I got to meet a bunch of people. That night, I was exhausted but felt pressure to go out, to milk my little bit of time in town before being gone for awhile, to meet even more new people. Then I thought to myself I don’t want to be the kind of person who goes out every Saturday night. I was that person for a long time and there’s nothing wrong with that person. I just don’t want to be her anymore.
I am grateful for the kind of person I am, even when I’m constantly trying to figure out who that is.
I am so, so, so excited for my upcoming trip. I haven’t been able to focus on it with the pressures of home buying and work ramped way up, but now that it’s here, I couldn’t be more excited. I love exploring new places, seeing how other people live, being on my own … and I am thrilled to see my little brother in action at work in Amsterdam during his festival.
This trip will cover 7 hours in London (not kidding, just gonna tourist real quick), not enough time in Norway from Oslo to Bergen, a 17-hour-long layover in Copenhagen, a long weekend in some tiny town whose name I can never remember outside of Amsterdam, and a few days in Amsterdam. The pin board Amsterdam Adjacent in August with my (limited) ideas is here. Travel recs always welcome!
I am forever trying to be good to myself … and grateful for what I’ve made of my life.