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| Munich - not the worst place to be... |
I will be very sad to leave this amazing city.
It's really strange, once you live here you don't ever take advantage of all the amazing things that NYC offers but at the same time you start thinking that you need all of them at your finger tips. Even if I don't regularly do grocery shopping at 2 AM - it just feels comforting that if need be - you could... Even if you can't afford to go see broadway musicals every weekend, it feels great to see all the ads in the subway and be able to go once in year (about as much as I have made it to a musical). Even if you have the hardest time to keep track of where the hot parties and hip bars are located these days, it's just nice to know that they would be just a subway ride away, if you decided to go out instead of going to sleep at 11 on Friday nights... Even if you don't keep up with all the different exhibitions in the museums and art galleries, it just is the best feeling to stumble upon one while going shopping or exploring a new yoga studio...
But this kind of abundance of cultural, musical, educational and art offerings can also start to stress people out, so it's important to acknowledge that it's fine not to keep up with everything and not to know of every fancy restaurant or bar that's opening this week (which is pretty much impossible anyway) and not to fall into the trap of feeling like you are constantly missing something. I read a good article somewhere earlier this week that was titled 'enough' - we need to start realizing that there are also points in our lives where we have enough things, enough money, enough friends, enough success in our careers and where we might just decide to stop and appreciate what we have.
I am at that point right now - I am so grateful for what I have been able to experience over the past two plus years here in New York and on my travels as well as yoga adventures and especially for all the wonderful people I have met through work, volunteering, friends and lately, yoga classes - it has certainly opened my eyes in a way that I never expected.
It's another turn in the road that I am taking now and I am very grateful for all my friends and family and most especially my boyfriend who is excited for me to return to Munich - I hope I will be able to draw on my experience and things I learned while here in the US. I was really inspired by some of the speeches the Boys Hope Girls Hope kids and teachers gave at their graduation ceremony I attended last night: the three life lessons Sister Mary gave them were:
1.) Let your conscience be your guide
2.) No short cuts
3.) Dream as big as you can
Very wise words and I have been thinking about it - if we were to sometimes reflect on our actions a little more, considering these three variables - we might actually make better decisions.
But back to me, life is change and I want this change of location as much as I wanted to move here a couple of years ago, so I would be the last one to complain - I dreamt big, maybe sometimes tried to take too many short cuts but will certainly consult my conscience on major decisions.
It's great to enjoy the last weeks here in the city as the weather is warming up and we're finally in this summer period that we have all been craving for quite some time. Of course there are things and mostly people that I'll miss but I was missing things and people from home for all this time - and it's not like we are out of this world with internet, skype etc. In fact, I can't wait to start this new chapter in my life - not sure how much traveling I will do so I might finally need to revamp the blog into a yoga blog, hoping that I won't lose too many of my non-yoga afectionado friends/readers.
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