The Trip Continues

I have just finished a long holiday. I lived and worked in a foreign land for two whole years and this equipped me to spend every day for the next few months almost exactly as I pleased. I am happy I was able to do that, but its over now. I read, surfed and hung out with friends. I bought a car and lost it two days later. I joined a band but we never really got that serious about our music. My girlfriend arrived from the United States. This is when things started to get interesting. This is the first country she has been in where it really is as dangerous as people say it is. Bearing witness to the difficult adjustments she had to make has been a valuable learning experience.

I now find myself in a small apartment in a security complex, driving to work just before rush hour starts and coming home just after it ends. My dreadlocked previous self would be horrified. This is just a phase, though, like any other. I have changed and I continue to change. I am happy to say that I still have the same friends. I just have to wait longer to see them. Life goes through cycles of contraction and expansion. We all grow older and wiser, some faster than others. The trick is to get wiser faster and older slower.