Times-a-movin'

So I just looked and a flight from Bangkok to Balitmore that leaves in 2 hours.....and it is $1558 dollars. If it was cheap, I was considering coming home to surprise Brianna.... but $1500 dollars is a little out of my range, if it was Baht, it would be a different story.

This blog comes after a moment last week that stuck  my head.

There are always those moments in life that we can never seem to lose the image of.  Moments that are frozen in time, and locked away forever in your mind. The true essence of an instance is saved in a thought. There are some times that will always be remembered, especially the events that seemed to be anticipating for a lifetime. Graduating college was really recent, and it was such a culminating event. The images are so clear in your head about these events, it almost feels dream like becaue the image seems so real.

But I kinda look like a kid in this one!

I was getting ready for work, and going through the usual morning routine and I was looking particulary fresh that day, so I was feeling great to start the day. And as I put my foot up on the edge of the table and began to reach down to tie my black dress shoes, I dont know what the feeling was, but I got a feeling and things just appeared to being seen through a different lense. I got the feeling like college has ended. I do have a job, I have to go to work, I'm dressed in a shirt and tie every day, I am officially not a kid anymore. I look like a man. Heck, I am a man. But  I still get the feeling of wanting to order off the kids menu at Friendly's for some odd reason....

But I'm doing everything on my own off in Asia while teaching English. Alone. But fully content with everything in the world. The moment was one of those instances that seems like an eternity,and  in that one second I managed to perceive so much. It was just a really weird moment, because there hasn't been a whole lot of time since Loyola to process life. There have been relaxing times, but things are moving so quickly that it often times seems like things are moving at the pace of a well oiled machine. This was a moment that allowed me to slow time and take time to appreciate and fully realize what is going on in life. 

Do you ever feel those moments? The ones that you can't seem to get out of your head. I like to call them the images of the soul. 

Just a random thought: Riding on the back of a motorcycle taxi in Bangkok is the most introspective experience you can have. 

But the truth is, things in life are moving. Life isn't frozen and it doesn't really stop for anything. That is a great feeling because such good things are on the horizon. Life is at a great point right now because I'm traveling in a completly different direction at this point in life than I was just a few months ago. We are all entering a new phase of life. Things 8600 miles away in Balitmore seem great with the beautiful Brianna Kelliher, and that makes me so happy. Two lovers with nothing in their way is a beautiful sight to see...(on skype!) And the next part of life is like diving off into the unknown. But you know the cool about diving into the unknown? It is that some pretty cool things can happen, it's a fresh start. You shouldn't always fear the unknown, sometimes you have to relish it, because great things can happen. 

So I think that slowing down sometimes and trying to see life for what it is can really refresh the heart, and help you to appreciate the small things in life.