everyone wants to be found...

Someone once told me that to travel is better than to arrive – the endless adventure, the never-ending story, the sky without a horizon. And for the longest time I thought that once I settled somewhere "for good", that would be it – the final rest, the last hurrah, the proverbial end of the road. So I never allowed myself to feel too comfortable in one place for too long, in the fear that familiarity would lead to complacency, that would turn into quicksand - trapping me where I was, without any means of escape.
But then I realised, that life itself is the journey, on which we will all spend our entire lifetimes awaiting to arrive at the end of.

After returning home and meeting the people I once knew so well: I find some who are engaged, others who are married, a smattering who are saving for the mortgage on their first house, and one who is preparing for the arrival of their first child. A couple are unemployed and looking for their next job, a few are free and wandering wherever the road will take them, and a handful seem like they've never left high school at all :) Looking back at this unique collection of individuals, I realise that along the way, our conversations have changed, our priorities have shifted, our points-of-view have re-aligned, our values have been challenged, and our beliefs have been questioned. Yet here we all stood, for better or worse, in the midst of our own lives. A life that is, like any other, unlike any other. From seemingly the same, humble beginnings, our paths have diverged so dramatically, and followed such myriad of twists and turns, that no-one could have predicted the passage it has taken over time. If you had told me five years ago, that I would be where I am right now... I would not have believed you. Reality, really is stranger than fiction. You only have to look at your own life to find the truth in these words.

So enjoy it while it lasts – the beauty and the magic and the mad drama of it all. Remember, wherever you think you've ended up, you're not there... Because you don't have to stay anywhere forever, and "for good" does not necessarily mean the end... simply another stop along a road that has no ending. I still have not settled down - I wonder if I ever will. But I am no longer afraid of it. Life is all about perspective after all. I am not longer running away from something, rather I am running toward something of value, worth pursuing – I simply have not figured out what that is yet :)