a good life

FINALLY INSPIRED!!

 

Hey, it’s been a while.

 

Lately I have been trying to be inspired, trying to be confident, but most importantly, find my energy.

 

This country is an absolute dream, don’t get me wrong, but uni life is pretty gnarly. Pretty much no obligations (because who needs class when all of your lectures are online), down time all the time, and put a drink in your hand at any time of the day ANY DAY and no one is going to question you.

 

All of these parties that I try to have high expectations and that I think will give me joy and show me beauty are not living up to the weekends spent in the woods. During the week when we are living in our flats and pretty much not doing much my energy has plummeted. And it isn’t only my energy, it is my inspiration, my motivation, my CONFIDENCE.

 

And I have felt like I’m losing “me” sitting in this flat, but then I find myself in the middle of the mountains or staring at a glacial avalanche, or having kea birds (the most intelligent bird and the only alpine parrot look it up!!) nibble my toes while I am in my tent, or having the stars light a path to the outhouse on the side of a cliff, or playing my ukulele in a cave and having the tiny blue penguins sing the last verse of sleep on the floor with me, or waking up to shake frost off the top of our rainfly, or seeing the most funky and creative of human beings in Byron Bay wail on their banjo for a group of strangers singing songs about escaping to the woods with like-minded people when society is just too much.

 

I am jerked awake by the beauty that nature reminds me is in everyday normal life. I feel like I am in an ice bath sometimes locked into uni life and being in nature suddenly allows me to take that first breath you get when you are released.

 

So I know this is shorter than usual. But that’s all for now. It is a good life, when youre actually living it.