Lessons Learned!

There's always something new.

Today I was catching up on facebook and for the first time found one of the thousands of sidebar advertisements especially enticing. This particular ad was issued by STA travel, a group seeking an intern to voyage the world for free (!) and keep decent record of their experiences, to share the joy of exploration and the itch for travel with others, that the rest might be inspired to venture, likewise.

So engrossed was I at the thought of perhaps realizing this opportunity that I filled out considerable portions of application and took a look at a zillion and six of others' video applications to learn about the hearts and motivations of everyone else so travel-intersted as myself and eager to learn the world! As I was watching the short mini-capturings of their excellent qualifications and being made aware of their grand past travel experiences I realized three things:

1) There are a few that would be AWESOME and are probably much better-qualified than yours truly, especially when it comes to the video editing thing
2) I think it might be fun to try to learn / work with more video editing things!
3) Sometimes in life you kind of just have to put yourself out there. It can be fun!

There's something scary and exciting about lifting the comfy jersey knit off of those most obscured, lesser-known parts of our lives, granting our lungs liberty from muffled, warm breath surroundings to suck in deep the sweet, cool air that is the rest of life we've not yet experienced; whether that be by fear or nescience or an excess of previous comfort.

I think it's something we all want to do.
I think it's something we all hesitate to do.

I think that if both of these are true, we really have nothing to worry about.
If everybody is afraid,
why fear?

Here's to more openness, less fear, new experiences and real attempts at understanding each other
(and perhaps even ourselves.)



Peace,
Ashley :)