January 23, 2015

changes

Stepping out of my comfort zone has always been a challenge for me. It is so easy to get stuck in the same routine, doing the same things that have become so comfortable for you to do and once you have been the same way for as long as you can remember, making changes is a very terrifying thing.
But since most of you reading this right now have been following me on this journey I call my life for quite a long time now, you probably know how scared I am about the speed of time. I constantly talk about how quickly time goes by and how I feel like I can't keep up with it, but something snapped in me this week and I decided that it was about time I started catching up with time. 
Living in the moment has always been hard for me to do because I'm one of those people who constantly think about past events and what will happen in the future and I excessively stress about those things and often I'm oblivious to what's actually happening right now. But that's what I wanted to write about today. It's pretty bizarre that I have just now realized that I can't really affect the future as much as I want to, what will happen will and I just have to wait. And what has happened in the past has happened, and I can't change that either. But what I can change is how I deal with things now, and what I do with my life right now. Over-thinking is also something I need to learn how to control and just learn to go with the flow.
My comfort zone has always seemed like the safest place for me to stay, but that's not really what life is about. The world changes all the time, my life changes all the time, and people, including myself, change all the time, and that is something I really need to learn to accept. Letting go of things that I care about a lot but no longer make me happy is also hard, but that is also something I have realized I need to learn to do. All my life I have always put everything and everyone ahead of myself and I can no longer do that if I want to make the most out of my life. Each time I've had to make decisions, I've always thought about how those decisions will affect others instead of how they would affect me. And I know myself so well that I will still always keep doing that, but I need to make some space in my mind to think about myself occasionally as well.
So now I'm taking baby steps to becoming the person I want to be one day, and trying my best to make the best out of every moment. And the first step I had to do was step out of my comfort zone, so I started with chopping half of my hair off. My super long hair had become very important to me, but the night I realized I needed to change things I handed my roommate a pair of scissors and told her to chop it off. It might not seem like a big thing or a big change for you all, but it was something I had dreaded doing for a long time and it was a big change for me and after that I was even more motivated to make other changes. And now I'm finally determined to make 2015 my year.

January 15, 2015

d u b a i

I think the pictures are pretty self-explanatory. Dubai is beautiful.

January 5, 2015

VIDEO: 2 Days in Dubai


So... If you follow me on Instagram you would already know that we made a quick trip to Dubai after Christmas. Here's a little video recap of those 2 days we spent there. Pictures coming soon too :)