Eat Pray Love

I found this video today. It occurred by accident, but perhaps it was something that I needed to experience.


This whole week I have been buried in my paper, and rightfully so. I finally found a direction and I am running toward it at full speed. But I am also paying a price. My body is tired and I am feeling sick. But today, with half of my paper down, I am starting to feel a little better. 


Perhaps in life we spend too much time doing what it is we think others want us to do. Or we think we will become content with our lives at some point and time. But will those things really bring us happiness?


I find that when I go back to basics, is when I find myself again. When I let go of what others want from me and go for what I want, I find the girl inside. In order to find balance, we must find ourselves. 


The journey to finding self is different for everyone. For some it is long. For others it is short. But if we stay on the path, we will find ourselves. 


There are others still who say that self is created, not found. I agree with them, but I also believe that journey to create involves some finding. In the movie Eat Pray Love one of the characters tells Liz that if she wants to get to the castle, she has to swim the mote. And who knows what is in the water of that mote ... But how bad do you want the castle? 


Henry David Thoreau is one of my heroes. He embodies finding simplicity in life. He sold everything he had and went to live in the middle of the woods. "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."

Perhaps some day I will be as brave as he, or as brave as Liz. But for now, I relish in finding simplicity and marking things off my bucket list one day at a time. For now, I relish in finding myself and perhaps sharing a little of my journey along the way.

Eat Pray Love