You know that feeling you get standing atop a cliff. Looking down into a deep clear pool, knowing you can swim, and that the jump most likely won't kill you. You're excited, nervous, apprehensive.
If you wait too long you won't jump.
An old Jamaican security guard told me one night at Roots Bamboo Beach that sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff. That bit of advice has served me well and led me to the most wonderful, horrible times I have experienced. Sometimes when you think about it too much you may decide, "Wait, this cliff is way too high, there are definitely alligators in that water, I just ate like 10 minutes ago, there will be another chance, right?" then boom, the chance is gone. Congratulations, you just talked yourself out of it. Had I listened to that voice (reason right?) then I most certainly would not be where I am in life. Good thing there are Type A's out there to balance it all out.
Well this new cliff is a doozy.
I think the hardest part about our journey will be the first step. We have such a great network of friends and family here. It will be difficult to be away from them for so long and I think it will be even harder to say goodbye. However, it really is the hard things that build our character. The easy road is just that, easy, and sometimes not really what we want to do. We are told to follow our dreams from a very early age... turns out that some of those dreams are scary in real life. But don't look back; what one can do another can do. Follow your dreams, prepare for the worst, hope for the best. Do your best at whatever it is you do. Love and live as though it were your last day to do so.
And try to learn Greek, Bulgarian, Turkish, Arabic, and Italian, like yesterday. Right.
So it looks like our nasty little Schengen problem has turned out to be quite a nice dilemma to overcome. It has opened the door to places we otherwise would not have looked. On the menu now are Gotse Delchev Bulgaria, Istanbul and Bodrum Turkey, Marakesh, Essouira, and possibly Fez Morocco, and maybe the southwest coast of Ireland. That is some pretty good scrambling!
Honestly wow. It seems amazing just to write it down.
So after a bit of mild panic and a couple beers, I think a thank you is in order to whoever came up with that whole Schengen baloney in the first place. Without it we wouldn't have so many cliffs to jump off.
If you wait too long you won't jump.
An old Jamaican security guard told me one night at Roots Bamboo Beach that sometimes you just have to jump off the cliff. That bit of advice has served me well and led me to the most wonderful, horrible times I have experienced. Sometimes when you think about it too much you may decide, "Wait, this cliff is way too high, there are definitely alligators in that water, I just ate like 10 minutes ago, there will be another chance, right?" then boom, the chance is gone. Congratulations, you just talked yourself out of it. Had I listened to that voice (reason right?) then I most certainly would not be where I am in life. Good thing there are Type A's out there to balance it all out.
Well this new cliff is a doozy.
I think the hardest part about our journey will be the first step. We have such a great network of friends and family here. It will be difficult to be away from them for so long and I think it will be even harder to say goodbye. However, it really is the hard things that build our character. The easy road is just that, easy, and sometimes not really what we want to do. We are told to follow our dreams from a very early age... turns out that some of those dreams are scary in real life. But don't look back; what one can do another can do. Follow your dreams, prepare for the worst, hope for the best. Do your best at whatever it is you do. Love and live as though it were your last day to do so.
And try to learn Greek, Bulgarian, Turkish, Arabic, and Italian, like yesterday. Right.
So it looks like our nasty little Schengen problem has turned out to be quite a nice dilemma to overcome. It has opened the door to places we otherwise would not have looked. On the menu now are Gotse Delchev Bulgaria, Istanbul and Bodrum Turkey, Marakesh, Essouira, and possibly Fez Morocco, and maybe the southwest coast of Ireland. That is some pretty good scrambling!
Honestly wow. It seems amazing just to write it down.
So after a bit of mild panic and a couple beers, I think a thank you is in order to whoever came up with that whole Schengen baloney in the first place. Without it we wouldn't have so many cliffs to jump off.
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