I leave Denmark tomorrow... actually in 12 hours I will be on a plane. This has both been the shortest four monts and the longest four months of my life. So much has happened... but in so little time. It's unbelievable how many things I have had a chance to experience. Having never traveled out of the Eastern United States much, I have now been to 9 countries. More than that though, I have lived in a foreign country and in a (relatively) big city for the first time in my life... and I feel like I was really on my own for the first time... or at least more so than I have ever been before.
In many ways, it feels like going back to the States and back to my old life will be a major regression or devolution for me, so I will really need to try to make it a growing experience and a time to figure out how to incorporate the things I learned into my old life in order to make it new and transformed.
and who knows... perhaps I will find my way back here. It's hard for me to believe that I won't. Though sometimes I wonder if it wasn't Denmark per se that I fell in love with but just a new way of life, a fresh start.
I just don't want to go to sleep because I know if I do, I will have to wake up and leave.
More to come.
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"I just don't want to go to sleep because I know if I do, I will have to wake up and leave."
That's brilliant, Rachel! With a line like this you strike a chord in the deepest corner of my soul. I wholeheartedly can empathize with you. Up to now how often have all of us been in a situation where we had to leave behind someone or something we loved. Where all that we could do was to say goodbye. The cruelty of time - slipping through our fingers like dust. No chance to hold a grasp onto it. The attempt only makes us more helpless, leads us into a position where we are complete victims of time. And in the end our time is up and we have to say goodbye to life. Therefore we should draw a conclusion out of it. An old celtic proverb says that dying is the centre of living. If this is true, which I believe, then we should learn dying. To learn dying in my opinion is the path to life.
By the way, I like your blog! :)
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