the journey for happiness.
My friend Lee took off on a summer long European journey. He has been keeping a blog filled with amazing pictures from all of his places and I have enjoyed watching his trip.
Today I caught up with his blog when I found this buried within an entry. It was so refreshing to read—a guy who has everything (smarts, looks, dinero, kindness, ambition, humor, etc)…yet who has started to question what/why/who he wants to be and what really will determine his happiness…I think we can all relate to the journey within ourselves where we learn what defines happines within our own lives.
I am so proud of him for this…I can’t even put it into words.
“It was right there, at that moment where it all hit me square in the face…I miss home. WTF am I doing traveling around Europe, by myself, in the middle of summer, when everything I know and have ever known is waiting for me back in the states? Was I running from something? Was I looking for something? Was I looking to just get outta dodge and break free? The questions just kept coming; I had no answers other than a resounding “NO” to every one of them.
Believe me, the last thing I would have ever expected in my life was to wake up one day…40 and single…and in Chisinau?? Am I tired of being alone? That’s one question I’m starting to have to answer with a Yes. Maybe that is what’s eating me and prompted this trip. I was too busy working and living to realize that I was truly alone. I was too busy planning to see the forest for the trees (whatever the hell that means). Didn’t someone once say that life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans? All this is probably going to sound sappy as all hell and I’m sure I’ll hear it from the boys via email, but it just has to be said. Maybe Christopher McCandless was right, although he realized it too late; Happiness is isn’t real unless it is shared.”
