Now.

From the early stages of our lives we are told to do certain things that our future self will thank us for. Society tells us how we have to behave today, so tomorrow can be better. And how we can learn from the past, so we won’t make the same mistakes in the future again. 

So basically I have been focusing on my past (to learn from it) and my future. Every day I am working hard towards my future goals, which, don’t understand me wrong, can be a great thing. But what if we are so stuck in working so hard towards our future, that we never really reach the actual future we were looking for. We tend to overlook how far we have come and not realise that we might have already reached certain goals we have been working on 5 years ago. 

Today. Today, I am in Barcelona. 4 years ago, I have always wanted to come here. And I never thought it would be possible. But here I am. I am on my way of receiving a double degree in Business Management and Marketing, which allowed me to literally travel the world. Which I have also been dreaming about 4 years ago. And many many years ago I have always dreamt of meeting my biggest inspiration, and I did. 

But why do I keep wanting more? Why is ‘today” never enough for me and I feel like I have not accomplished anything? 

I have been trying to figure it out and well I guess I just live too much in the future or/and the past, like most of us. But it is definitely not our fault, because that is what we have been taught. Since this small realisation of mine, I am trying to change the direction of my thoughts, trying to live in the moment, trying to be thankful everyday for what I have reached so far. Of course keeping in mind my future, and working with the intention to always reach the goals I have set myself. 

But, no one knows what the future holds and no one knows how their story is written. 

With love,

Jess x

Life is a journey of lessons.

A few weeks ago I was on a hype. You know when you are on a really good wave in life! That wave keeps getting bigger, because it seems like life is getting better. Everything I have ever imagined was becoming a reality.

It even scared me. A moment came where I was wondering when this amazing wave would end. Well maybe I shouldn't have. Apparently everything we imagine, we attract.

And here we are. One bad message keeps following another and the amount of information that keeps hitting me daily is overflowing the capacity of the pot I am carrying around.

I am getting to a point where I start asking myself what the purpose of all this is. I know life is supposed to teach us something. But sometimes when we think we have actually achieved something in life, we might be woken up the very next moment, realising it was not at all what we have imagined. And one saying pops up in my mind.  Not everything that shines is gold.

Sometimes we keep doing things, which in our eyes seem right, but through another person might not think that way at all.

And it all leads us to one thing: life is a journey of lessons. Things happen which we can't control even though we wish we could. We will do things that primarily seem right to us, which at the end are not at all. But we will never know if we don't try, right?

But the most important thing is to not blame ourselves for some things, which we can't repair or do differently. Because this is what life is about.

With love,

Jess x