This is what you feel like, as i float somewhere between sea and sky.
I am the current, varying from tide to tide,
I am the breeze, servant to the winds.
I am just another drop in this vast ocean, something bigger than myself, yet free to escape when I please.
This is what I feel, in a permanent state of transit, with nowhere to call home, and the world spread invitingly at my feet.
The beginning of summer is like a promise: fuelled by hope and spun of featherweight dreams and ideas far from taking shape. This is how I feel right now, as the heat penetrates the night, steaming off sidewalks. I don’t know what will happen, who I’ll meet, or what exactly I’ll do… but the break in monotony feels like a rebirth, far away from heartbreak or longing, because that feeling of freedom has finally arrived.
SUMMER 2012 HAS FINALLY BEGUN. Here it is, stretched out before me like pathway full of promising twists, an adventure of my own making. Aside from work, there are several things I want to do:
Since I’m probably headed to the beach this weekend, hopefully I’ll find some inspiration. It has been too long since I’ve done anything for myself.
(Source: complicatedgirlz)
In my relentless, (and thankfully successful) quest for work experience this summer, i learned a few things about job hunting in Spain that amused, shocked and sometimes just downright befuddled me… I have therefore compiled some helpful tips so that others may benefit from my misadventures.
With ten more torturous days of the exam period to go, it’s highly motivating to know that I’ll be surfing in zarautz and camping on the beach for three days. i can’t wait to get out of my last exam and run screaming out of campus like it’s the end of an 80’s movie.
(Source: calisummer365, via the-waterfallyears)
Every few years or so, I get the feeling that something is coming- something new and different and exciting that’s going to make me a different person once I face it.
And here it is again, that unshakable anticipation accompanied by the frustration of not knowing what I’m waiting for.
It does get me through the sameness of exams though. I keep telling myself: “just keep going. because once you get through this, once every test is crossed off the calendar, it will happen…whatever IT is.”
(via the-waterfallyears)
THE GOOD NEWS: After countless cover letter, various resume revisions and months of perseverance, I have FINALLY been offered a work placement for the summer!!! And… they’re PAYING me! This marks the first time I’ve been offered an official job: something actually relevant to my degree that I got it all on my own. Exciting stuff!
THE NOT-SO-GOOD NEWS: It’s from the 1st of June to the 31st of August…in Pamplona. Which means I won’t be taking any fantastic trips this summer. NOT. I refuse to let that get me down. San Sebastian is only a 45-minute escape away. And I do have late May and early September to figure something out. Morroco? Berlin? Lisbon is always an option. We shall see…
(Source: themasqueradecrew, via bookmania)
Carcavelos Beach, Lisbon.
There’s nothing like that feeling of FINALLY getting up and being able to tell yourself: I DID IT! This is truly one of the coolest things I’ve done in Europe, freezing water be damned.
Not-so-Holy Week outtakes. My classmates and I outside the Bulldog Coffeshop in Amsterdam.
Something I’ve learned about myself: I will always follow my heart, go for high risk-high reward, and hope for the best while bracing myself for the worst. In the end, there are no regrets. Hurt is easy to get over for me: angry music, good books and amazing friends make for a speedy healing process. I would rather have to live with the consecuences of my choices, knowing that I did everything in my power, than be haunted by the whisper of “what if…”.
(Source: sem-t-ver)
