Sipping Coffee Outside Harrods.

Lustenau, Austria, 2016.

What is that one thing that makes you the happiest? It doesn't just make you feel happy, but it makes you the best version of yourself. 
Do you have something in mind?
Good. Now ask yourself if you do it enough; allow yourself to be your happiest enough?

  For me this thing is travelling. It has been a hot minute since I have been someplace new. In these last few weeks I found myself craving bad habits again. I saw myself spiralling downward. I have diligently been allocating time to a lot of my passions, except travelling. What with the moving I haven't had an extra penny in a while now. But come December I am going to be back on track.
  I have quite a few places I want to visit in the coming months. February will find me in France. Spring, hopefully, in Netherlands. 
  Being in a new city makes me feel like I am on the top of the world...like I can fly. It shows me why things did not work out. It alleviates my sorrows, and makes me aspire for more. It teaches me that anything is possible. Especially things that we couldn't have conjured in our wildest dreams.

  

Lustenau, Austria, 2016.

  Growing up patience never was my finest virtue, so it has taken a while for me to understand that everything that needs to happen will happen at its own pace. There is no need to rush things. 
This is something I have to constantly remind myself of. One should always remember this while travelling. I grew up going through family vacations, where we were always racing against time, trying to check everything off our check lists.
Although there was this one I time I remember during our time in London. It was the last night, and we were sitting outside a Café, drinking coffee after dinner, across Harrods. I remember talking to my parents, whilst my brother slept in his pram, and thinking that Harrods looked so pretty at night, all lit up. 
  
  I wonder if the eight year old me - sitting outside Harrods with her parents, excited to have had a sip of her parents coffee - would have known that travelling would become such an essential part of my life.