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I often run through life feeling as though I have a ton of bricks stacked upon my shoulders. Bricks of responsibility, of obligation, of high-expectations weighing down on me, clouding my vision, preventing me from feeling completely free to the opportunities of the world. Each day it’s a battle: how much weight can I take […]

How can I feel as though I’ve been gone a lifetime, but also as if my adventure is just begining? 17 days. 3 countries. Many people. Countless memories. This journey might be coming to a close, as much as I hate to let it go, but the chapter of my life it’s opened up has […]

The sheer amount of life in this world terrifies me.  As I delve deeper into my studies of international development, the amount of life I continue to encounter grows and grows and begins to become this overhwleming pressure of obligation weighing down on me.  Not only life as in people, but all the things that […]

Maybe we are never truly whole. Maybe everywhere we go, in everything we do, we find another little piece of ourselves.  Maybe there is no final person we are meant to be, rather we are a canvas upon which all these little pieces continue to collect and our story is the glue that ties them […]

For the most part, I write this blog and post on social media for myself. I have so many thoughts jumbled up in my head and I’m a firm believer in doing all I can to let those thoughts out, let them breathe, give them space to develop and grow and lead me through life. […]

I had one of those moments today. That sudden stop moving, start seeing moment of realization that life is so incredibly beautiful. One of those moments where you take a second to breathe after running running running through it all and you open your eyes and goose bumps cover your entire body and a chill […]

I’m not really sure how to describe today other than totally, completely surreal. I woke up to the sunshine, which I’ve come to know in Iceland is very rare. I visited the little coffee shop that already feels familiar, walking the streets that in just one day feel like old friends. I followed this wonderful […]

Traveling alone is a curious sensation. As a first time solo traveler, I had no clue what to expect. It wasn’t loneliness, really, this feeling that swept over me as I wandered through this foreign place where no one knew my name, where I had no connections. As someone who spends a lot of time […]

You know that feeling when you are in a really important conversation, and you have the PERFECT idea/thought/comment to add, but for the life of you, you cannot spit out the one word you need to make the sentence complete? That’s how I’ve felt for a while now. Except that word I’m searching for isn’t […]

We all have those days. Those days when we feel like we are not good enough… Someone else gets that one thing we wanted so badly. We receive a rejection email from our dream job. We feel like we’ve accomplished so much yet no one else seems to care. Maybe… maybe we simply just feel, […]