the past month has simply flown by!
it's been really nice to celebrate with family and friends from all over the world, to hear from and catch up with people that i hadn't been in touch with for a long time, to be caught up in the initial excitement of wedding planning (twice over!), and to bask in the certainty that i feel everytime i ask myself if this is what i want to do.
i'm just in such a good place in life at the moment (and have been, really, for a couple of years) - i enjoy the work i do, i have flexible work hours, i don't have any financial concerns, i have the luxury of being able to travel often, i have someone to share this experience with, and i have people in my life whom i love and am loved by. to top it all off, it's been sunny for the past few days!
granted, i still have my adelle worries about whether my work is good enough and that what i'm doing isn't impressive enough, and i've started thinking about what lies beyond my phd... but then i think that's just going to be a constant in my life.
anyway. the one thing that has really stood out to me in all of this, and even more so recently, is that everything doesn't stop just because something big and happy has happened to me. as much as i want everyone to forget everything else and just celebrate with me, life goes on - for everyone else as well as myself. and that's just the way things are, really.
it's been really nice to celebrate with family and friends from all over the world, to hear from and catch up with people that i hadn't been in touch with for a long time, to be caught up in the initial excitement of wedding planning (twice over!), and to bask in the certainty that i feel everytime i ask myself if this is what i want to do.
i'm just in such a good place in life at the moment (and have been, really, for a couple of years) - i enjoy the work i do, i have flexible work hours, i don't have any financial concerns, i have the luxury of being able to travel often, i have someone to share this experience with, and i have people in my life whom i love and am loved by. to top it all off, it's been sunny for the past few days!
granted, i still have my adelle worries about whether my work is good enough and that what i'm doing isn't impressive enough, and i've started thinking about what lies beyond my phd... but then i think that's just going to be a constant in my life.
anyway. the one thing that has really stood out to me in all of this, and even more so recently, is that everything doesn't stop just because something big and happy has happened to me. as much as i want everyone to forget everything else and just celebrate with me, life goes on - for everyone else as well as myself. and that's just the way things are, really.
