Carrying Blessings In My Baggage
For my first ever blog post, as a travel story teller and aspiring travel blogger, I wanted to share my most life changing trip –
The last year of my twenties is without a doubt the biggest adventure I’ve ever been on. I checked into this year carrying baggage (mostly emotional, although I did go over my luggage allowance flying into Australia – whoops), but on the ground I’m traveling light.
Not everything that has happened to us in our lives needs to stay with us for the whole journey. Over time, you start to learn what’s essential to keep in your hand luggage – the lessons.
It’s a journey of self-discovery, after taking a detour from the life I had previously mapped out. I now have no direction and my destination is unknown. Curiosity is my new compass, following in the direction that my deepest desires take me in. Sometimes the wind blows me back and forth and I struggle to know which way to go, but turbulence means we’re moving forward. Not being able to see ahead, doesn’t mean we’re not going the right way. The clouds soon enough part ways for the sun and you start seeing the clear sky ahead.
Life is often compared to a journey. Because it is. I personally love the train station theory – it suggests that life is a ride with many stops and departures, many greetings and goodbyes.
The Train of Life poem by Vincent Moore puts it perfectly:
“The mystery to everyone is:
We do not know at which station
we ourselves will step down.
So, we must live in the best way,
love, forgive, and offer the best
of who we are.
It is important to do
this because when the time
comes for us to step down
and leave our seat empty
we should leave behind beautiful
memories for those who will
continue to travel on the train of life”.
I never thought that part of my journey would be me travelling alone, and certainly never expected my next stop to be living in Australia. The railroad switch has rerouted me to a new life, new experiences and with new passengers along for the ride.
I celebrated my 29th birthday living on the other side of the world to where I have spent my whole life growing up, and within only a few months of being in Australia, I was lucky enough to spend the day surrounded by all the new wonderful friends I’d made. My head was well and truly in the clouds (number nine obvs).
I’ve never felt so far away from the person I was last year, and so close to arriving at the person I’m destined to become.
You don’t always need to know where you’re going in life, the detours and delays are all part of the journey, because you’ll always end up exactly where you’re supposed to be.
LuLu Land 