Finding simplicity out of complexity- May 9, 2010

I remember reading how the trip helped someone from last year get through this final month. It provided the motivation and support to keep up the studying and march that final stretch. Sitting here staring at pages after pages of notes, I find that this applies to me. I value my education, the probabilities that opened up my life because of where I am, who I am with. Keeping this in mind, this month is passing by fast and ironically, I actually might miss it.  Before and after. Its all really down to one simple word that I know everyone mentioned before: appreciation.

Its quite a journey, it took merely a year to witness the change that we were seeking for, and two weeks to make it  real.I reminisce constantly about those two weeks still, I envision myself sometimes still inside the dorm after a long day of work, dirty hair and all.  Now, its funny how these small changes still affect me.  I don’t need long showers just so that my hair is nice and shiny everyday, just the luxury of having clean and accessible water is good enough. Life can be simple, we are the ones who make it too complicated. When the wind is roaring and I feel a bit chilly, wanting to complain about the cold, I just think back on the first day in the yurt. Enough said. Cold? Yeah right.

Its the simplicity that I treasure more of now, the appreciation of what I have, not what I don’t have. We can choose to see it in different ways but frankly, life is not that hard to get through.