The Summer of No Plans
This has been a very quiet summer for me. Unlike the last few summers, no cross country train trips or multi-day bike tours are on the agenda. No yoga teacher training or international travel. Not even any short weekends away. It feels as if my life is on pause at the moment, or, as I have been telling people, my life is in a holding pattern.
And that's okay.
I feel as if this is exactly what I need right now. It's not a bad thing. It's not a sad thing. It is, in fact, very healthy to withdraw a bit (or a lot) from time to time. Doing so allows us time to think and reevaluate and plan the next step...or just be.
Sometimes we get so caught up in living our life by habit that it doesn't even occur to us to break away and take a look at the view outside of the box.
So I am pretty much just taking life day by day at the moment and doing what I feel like doing, leaving room to say yes and leaving room to say no. And while life feels slower than usual for me this summer, I s…
And that's okay.
I feel as if this is exactly what I need right now. It's not a bad thing. It's not a sad thing. It is, in fact, very healthy to withdraw a bit (or a lot) from time to time. Doing so allows us time to think and reevaluate and plan the next step...or just be.
Sometimes we get so caught up in living our life by habit that it doesn't even occur to us to break away and take a look at the view outside of the box.
So I am pretty much just taking life day by day at the moment and doing what I feel like doing, leaving room to say yes and leaving room to say no. And while life feels slower than usual for me this summer, I s…
