Yea! Live!

Life is the most peculiar and under-appreciated gift. I find myself always drifting vulnerably towards the worthless worries of a materialistic world and away from what I know matters. Yea it’s the classic thought process of hating the characteristic American society, and dreaming for a life in the mountains with your only companions being the smells and tastes of nature’s silence. I have my entire life struggled with accepting the oddities of this country’s society. A society that is so obsessed with technology and clothes and JUNK. You may think you don’t care about the stuff you have, but you are that person that hates their phone. You are that person that “just can’t wait for your upgrade!” You are that person that will buy Sperry shoes just because everyone else has them. If I met the person that assimilated Sperrys into our culture I would probably hit them. First off who needs shoes anyway, but that’s a whole other story.  As for an introduction, I am starting this blog several weeks before I leave for New Zealand. Just writing that sentence out sent chills down my spine. To say that I can’t wait to leave is an extraordinary understatement. And the fact that no one from Purdue is going to New Zealand this semester and that I will know not a single soul excites me even more. Six months of pure bliss, new culture, new people, new life, new stories, new struggles. Again life continues to provide endless gifts and surprises. Many people say that they love travelling and this gives them an air of artsy/trendy-ness. Being a usual traveler gives you that cool edge, makes you seem all “worldly”. But even the ability to buy a ticket and to be able to afford a vacation out of the states comes with the blessing of enough of money to be able to indulge yourself in such ways. I have been lucky enough to travel once to England with my mother for a conference and once to the Ukraine to see my family and visit the country where had history not played itself out the way it did I might have grown up and spent all my life. In any case, I am extremely blessed to be able to study abroad at all, and can never forget to be thankful for the hand I’ve been dealt. I think I have sufficiently completely changed topics from the start of this post until the end so I’d say it’s time to call it quits. Thanks for anyone who read. God Bless!