Wonderland
I am very excited at the prospect of moving to South Africa. I would love to work in news and know that I was part of the intense political change that is underway. I know the area is quite volatile, but I have been assured that Cape Town is much safer (and more beautiful) than Johannesburg. I think I started the ball rolling by moving to London and if I went home after this then all the hardship and growing I've done to get here would be wasted. It is very difficult to start with nothing in a new country. A new continent. A new hemisphere. It will be incredibly different but I think well-worth the struggle. Not only for the fact that I took part in history but that I lived in Africa, I challenged myself to an amazingly difficult situation and will hopefully come out shining.
Someone once said to me, quoting Alice in Wonderland: "take the blue pill and see how far the rabbit hole goes." What better way is there to live your life? Alice, for all her naivety, learned and experienced more in 2 hours than many people experience in their lives. If given the opportunity, how many of us would jump, blind, into a rabbit hole? Danger and money aside, there seems no reason to hold back and stare, wonderously into the hole, thinking about bills that you might miss, days at work you need to take off, the sheer fear of not knowing where you will be at the end of the journey. We hold ourselves back because of 'rationality,' which tells us to prepare for everything and gamble nothing. But what life are we living if we don't force ourselves to step out of our skins and stretch our comfort level? A sheltered and limited existence. I refuse to be sheltered or limited. I wouldn't feel comfortable walking right past the blue pill and saying "I'd rather not challenge myself to that right now."
Am I nervous? Absolutely. Am I afraid? Terrified. But only doing things that I'm already comfortable with will leave me with very few options and even more disappointment with myself. The only person stopping me from experiencing everything the world has to offer is myself. Thankfully I have very supportive family who are open-minded...or at least support my open-mindedness and I chose a career that allows for a great deal of travel. So I say, "Take the blue pill and see how far the rabbithole goes." And if you don't wake up some mornings and say "I can't believe I'm really here" then you haven't done it right.
Someone once said to me, quoting Alice in Wonderland: "take the blue pill and see how far the rabbit hole goes." What better way is there to live your life? Alice, for all her naivety, learned and experienced more in 2 hours than many people experience in their lives. If given the opportunity, how many of us would jump, blind, into a rabbit hole? Danger and money aside, there seems no reason to hold back and stare, wonderously into the hole, thinking about bills that you might miss, days at work you need to take off, the sheer fear of not knowing where you will be at the end of the journey. We hold ourselves back because of 'rationality,' which tells us to prepare for everything and gamble nothing. But what life are we living if we don't force ourselves to step out of our skins and stretch our comfort level? A sheltered and limited existence. I refuse to be sheltered or limited. I wouldn't feel comfortable walking right past the blue pill and saying "I'd rather not challenge myself to that right now."
Am I nervous? Absolutely. Am I afraid? Terrified. But only doing things that I'm already comfortable with will leave me with very few options and even more disappointment with myself. The only person stopping me from experiencing everything the world has to offer is myself. Thankfully I have very supportive family who are open-minded...or at least support my open-mindedness and I chose a career that allows for a great deal of travel. So I say, "Take the blue pill and see how far the rabbithole goes." And if you don't wake up some mornings and say "I can't believe I'm really here" then you haven't done it right.
I second that...
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