![]() The school I taught at was built on the side of a hill with the peak rising just behind our campus. The hills surrounding the bay towered over the little village and made the whole area feel as though it were in a realm all its own. To me, it was a wonder any of those boats actually made it farther than a few hundred yards out into the ocean before splitting at the seams. When I looked out my apartment room window, I could see the bay where the fishermen docked their old, rattling boats. In my mind, I can still smell the hot breeze blowing the smell of fish up from the village to the school where I lived and worked in one of the towns surrounding Qingdao. I hope you’re able to find time to do the same if only for an evening. I’m just going to sip this wine, enjoy the cool breeze coming through the windows, listen to band of horses play in the background, and just breathe. I’m trying not to think about anything really. The owner of the store joked with me that he’d never been able to let this wine decant properly because it’s so delicious that he drinks it all as soon as he opens a bottle. I have a glass of a delicious bottle of sangiovese I was lucky enough to pick up for just thirteen dollars at a wine store nearby. We need some time to just close our eyes, relax our shoulders, and feel the breeze. I think we need to just sit back and breathe. I think we need to relax sometimes and not think about what’s missing in our lives. Unfortunately, that probably won’t happen any time soon.Įven though most of us aren’t lucky enough to have that much time off to just chill, I think we have to take an evening off now and then. I bet you wish you could take about a year off from your life or at least a year off from working. I feel like I’m constantly having to tell myself to let the muscles in my face relax because I’m constantly either frowning or wrinkling my brow in concentration (For everyone around me, it probably looks like I’m always constipated). Maybe you wish you were able to travel more and live your life like one of those movies where they seem to hop continents like they’re riding a bus from Jersey to New York City as though it’s no big deal and doesn’t cost much. Maybe it has to do with wishing that you’d done more of the fun stuff while you had the chance when you were just a few years younger. Maybe it has to do with finding that special someone who you think will make your life complete. Maybe it has to do with making more money. ![]() You’re probably wishing that you were at a certain point in your life by now. For most of the people reading this, you’re probably worried about getting old too fast. It feels like we’ve been going and going nonstop for about fifty years now, doesn’t it? Doesn’t it feel like every vacation we have, every day off we get, is never long enough? It feels like that for me and I’m sure you feel like that too.įor the most part I know we’re all working hard or stressing out about how to get ahead just a little bit.
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