My First Post: My Adventure for Inner Happiness and How to Find Yours

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Hi there, welcome to my first blog post! I would love to share with you the story of how I decided to take a leap of faith for myself, and go on the trip I’ve been dreaming of for the past couple years….and hopefully inspire you to do something for yourself too. You deserve it!

I have always had a fascination with travel, even from a young age; I have always loved the exhilaration of experiencing a completely new place. I believe each town, city, and village has a story to tell us.

With that being said, a few years ago, I decided to take a trip to Seattle with my mom for a weekend. Although it was a short time, there was just something about Seattle that drew me in. It felt like a home I had never known before, as strange as that may sound. That was two years ago, last year I returned for another weekend trip.

However, even though I had visited frequently, it still didn’t seem like enough. I still had an itch to go back. When I had free time, I’d find myself looking at Seattle apartments, restaurants, and current news….

Part of what fascinates me about Seattle is city life; I’m a small town girl. I felt the need to experience city life for more than a weekend. I often wondered what is would be like to live in a city, plus what’d be better than the one I had fallen in love with? And also as a lover of writing, this would be a great time for me to do some much needed time working on that.

Now, I definitely did NOT make this decision overnight!! Actually, I waited a little too long to act on it. I had been thinking about this for over a year before I actually took the leap of faith and did it. Why I don’t recommend waiting is because if you don’t live out what you dream of doing, you will feel unsatisfied with life. This happened to me all too quickly….I was unhappy with life in general, and I kept thinking to myself, you have so much to be grateful for so why do you feel like this?? I kept thinking what I could do differently.

This had been something I dreamed of doing, but felt extremely selfish for wanting it. Why? Because I had a relationship, an apartment, and a job that I felt I needed to put my daily effort into, and that it would be wrong of me to step away and do a trip by myself. I felt like everyone would blame me, like they would see it as an inconvenience. After having a long talk with my mom (bless her soul) she actually encouraged me, because she knew it was what I wanted/needed for myself.

After having a heart to heart with my mom, it was a little easier to bring it up to others. Although it came as a shock to everyone, no one discouraged me from doing it because I told them the honest truth: This is what I need to be happy. And I need to choose to be happy. People definitely try to understand that. I felt really bad telling my boss I had to leave my job, even had an embarrassingly tearful conversation with him, but I am very glad that I did, and was able to part on good terms.

Now, with saying that everyone was pretty encouraging, I know that this may not happen for everyone! Maybe they think this is a crazy inconvenience. BUT, I’m telling you that you can do this! You need to do this, because you deserve to do what makes you happy. Everyone deserves to make decisions for themselves that will give them inner peace.

Everyone has things they want to accomplish, but what if you stopped thinking of them as “those things” and start making a plan to do them? Maybe you can’t do it tomorrow, but when is the soonest you can? Following a dream can be logical!

I hope you enjoyed this post, and encourage you to check out more of my posts in the future about travel and more! Feel free to comment or contact me with your thoughts, I’d love to hear from you!