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Published: December 25th 2007
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Empty Streets
Walking beautiful San Juan, Puerto Rico
On to my next Adventure…
Merry Christmas! I hope everyone’s holidays are going well! I’ve gotten all sentimental this Christmas season and thought I would send out a little life update and a few thoughts from my time with Carnival.
As most of you know, I have finished my contract with Carnival Cruise Lines and am back on land for a good while. I had the time of my life the last few months I was onboard-a time of intense fun and equally intense hardship.
The first evening I spent back with family they told me I had changed- matured, calmed, grew up a little. I’m glad they noticed because I feel it: like someone gave me a chill pill and taught me how to laugh again. I could rant and rave for eons about all the philosophical discoveries I have made. Instead, to cut down on boredom for you and me, I thought I would make a fun little ’bullet list’ of a few things I’ve learned. Some are silly, some are stolen, and a few are meaningful and thoughtful reflections of the life lessons I’ve learned. I hope you enjoy them!
What I’ve Learned
Puerto Rico
My favorite cafe
I’m beautiful, every woman is. Comparing is dumb.
Passion for something can carry you as far as talent
It’s not impossible
You can choose your path, other’s don’t have to choose it for you.
“When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.“
-Isak Dinesen
Laughter and crying are both necessities to life….releasing darkness and putting a few more puffy clouds and some sun in the sky
Everyone needs a safe place, and everyone is desperately trying to find one
Drinking is fun
Drinking too much is not fun at all
Hugs are great
Caring about people is much more important than making money
Labor laws don’t exist in International waters
Life isn’t fair and that’s not an excuse to complain or settle
Why Not?
Wanderlust is both a curse and a blessing
Friendship is one of the most beautiful, renewing gifts a human can experience
Life is hard, and without the caring and encouragement of other’s-it’s unbearable
You always have a
Puerto Rico
My manager Dusko and I loving on each other! choice
You will never be ultimately accepted for your weakness and failures, and it is not the strong who spend their time being perfect, it is the strong who are willing to fail and admit it with peace and humility.
Freedom comes with personal responsibility and integrity; let someone down rather than give an excuse and unmerited defense.
I do want to get married someday
I still can’t see my path, but in time, as it always does, it will be as clear as day to me.
I love Oregon
I like normal life
I have little awareness of my limits until I am way beyond them.
Limits are good.
Traveling is beautiful because of the people with you and around you…it is not the place, but the people that make the world worth exploring.
Everyone has a story worth hearing.
What’s Next???
Thanks for reading my ‘life-lesson’ tidbits. I wrote them in a reflective moment a couple of weeks before I signed off, and have enjoyed looking back over them and smiling at the lessons that prepared me for the next adventures in my life.
My
next adventure has just recently unfolded for me:
I will be moving to Oregon within the next year, working on a technical photography program for the next two, and will be accepting an internship opportunity I’ve been offered with a successful commercial photography studio in downtown Portland. I have spent tons of time trying to figure out my next step, and as usual it has found me through a combination of loving family networkers and some eerie ‘it’s all falling into place’ God stuff.
Thanks to everyone for spending the time you have reading about my traveling adventures, I will be updating this only when I travel to far and distant lands, so until then….
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." -Mark Twain
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