“Not all those who wander are lost.”
- J. R. R. Tolkien
I love this quote because I feel like it sums up my life right now. I have been pondering a lot lately about the incredible experiences that I have had over the past five years and the amazing people who I have met along the way. I've seen more sights in this short amount of time than most people get to see in a lifetime. I've completed a first-class education and worked with an organization (ILP) that has changed my life. I've done two semesters of service abroad in Ukraine and Mexico. I've served a full-time mission in Russia. I back packed Columbia, Peru and Western Europe by myself or with friends I met along the way. I studied abroad in the Holy land and traveled to Egypt, Jordan and Israel. I've seen things that people have only dreamed of, and I've had so many people, places and experiences etched into my heart that I feel an incredible fusion of enhanced wholeness and longing emptiness at all times, wherever I am. I suppose that once so many people and places have so much meaning for you, you can never be the same person you once were. I am certainly not the same as I once was. I hope that I am always a wanderer, searching for experiences in life and jumping at any opportunity that comes my way. I am so blessed to have the life that I do, and I hope that the desire I have to see the world and understand God's children is not just a phase.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” - Mark Twain
