The Sweet Spot

As a naturally-inclined adventurer and outdoors-lover, it's no surprise that much of my down time the last couple days has been spent stalking fellow adventurers and outdoor explorers on Instagram, most especially since I'm coming fresh off some solid outdoor-venturing. But today, something changed, something powerful happened...

I was doing some serious double-tapping, when all of a sudden, I was no longer just liking these images of mountains, gullies, waves, trees, trails, and our Earth, but I was aggressively engaged in fully losing myself in the images. And then it happened, that oh-so-familiar feeling came sweeping over me, and gripped everything inside of me to the point where I almost just ran right out the front door and off [in]to only God knows where. (Ok, so only as far as my barefeet, jeans and lungs would allow really, but you get the point.) It became very apparent that every single cell inside of me was yearning, with deep-rooted desire, for one thing, and one thing only: to grab a camera, and go on adventures outside in the wild.

It's been a little over three months since my return to California, which isn't really that long to be in one place and/or do something, but it's just long enough for my travel bug bites to start acting up again, and my itch to return. Three months is the longest amount of time I've ever spent living under the roof of my parents since I left for uni at the ripe age of 18, and clearly, that is The Sweet Spot.

Now, just as many of us are all-too familiar with the term "wanderlust," I think a great deal also know a great deal about The Sweet Spot (TSS). TSS is that golden hour, that right amount of time, that bit that's just long enough, gives enough, and yet will never leave you thinking it needed to be much more than it was, in spite of the adventures it has left untouched. I have found that The Sweet Spot with GG is 1 1/2 hours, maybe two, depending on the time of day and what we're doing, I've found that for living abroad, it's nine months, and I think I've now found that TSS for being back home [living in my parents' house] is three months. Of course all of these amounts leave adventures to be had, things to be done, people to be seen and met, and stories left untold/open, but in my heart of hearts, I know these to be my sweet spots.

As many things as I still have on my CA Hit List, and as much as I am soaring into something special, the unsatiable desire I feel to be living a life that consists of more than being a warrior only on the weekends, is starting to take control of my soul. So today, I let it take me under. And in it, I found a kind of peace that I can only call "comfort in knowing I/it will be honored."

I know my days of wandering the world with my backpack on are not anywhere near over, and have to remind myself that the gig I've got going right now is a really fantastic and blessed one, one that is only scheduled to last another three months, and one that is a highly necessary step to take in order to achieve the next level of dreams-into-reality living. Plus, in three months and five days, I shall be boarding a plane to Nicaragua, where I will begin a mini-adventure abroad in Central America. A choice that already weighs a little heavy on my heart, while also filling me with such excitement, I know I must pursue it and the ideas that have come to surround it.

So for now, I gear up, breath deep, embrace all, and just live for the moment, while trying to keep most of my thought-space from running to the weekend. ;) It's quite the task, but for the bright moments I've been blessed with during the weekdays, it's well-worth it.

Life with wanderlust... there's really little else like it, and honestly, as suffocating as it can be sometimes (because you realize you have to face your responsibilities at least every once in a while and stay semi-put), I'd never want to live without it! It makes me feel like I can and will do anything, that the world is drenched with opportunities, and that every single time I turn around, another awesome adventure awaits. I know these things to be true, because for the last three years, I've been living them. And my goodness my God, I am SO grateful for that. <3

I hope that you are having a beautiful week beautiful family, you are such sacred Beings, and you deserve every happieness in the world.

Sending you such sweet Blessings, Love, Light, and a little extra Wonder today on this wanderlust-loaded day!

Te quiero, te adoro, te admiro

-Allie-Sun <3