The night before I left for Spain in August 2019, I felt furious with myself.
My childhood bedroom looked like a Midwestern tornado had pillaged my closet, bookshelf, and drawers. An overweight suitcase sat at the foot of my bed. I’d find out in a few weeks that I wouldn’t even need half of the shit I packed.
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I was sitting outside the town hall on a Saturday afternoon in Valencia, during the winter in the middle of January.
Once we pass the New Year and the celebration of the Three Wise Men in Spain, winter skies in January leave a gloomy aftertaste. Gone is the anticipation of the Christmas holidays. Broken are many resolutions people draft on the arbitrary date of January 1st. Returning to our routine sometimes feels like waking up from a hangover.
And on this overcast Saturday in January, I had said goodbye to someone at the train station hours before.
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Two years ago, I bought a one-way ticket to Gran Canaria.
I didn’t have any friends there. I didn’t know where I would live. I didn’t know anything about Gran Canaria. In fact, up until a few months prior, I hadn’t had any interest in visiting the Canary Islands at all.
And yet here I was, about to move to one of them.
How many days a week do you hit the snooze button? And how many times?
Are you one of those people who jump out of bed as soon as the alarm rings?
Or, do you hit the snooze button over and over again?
For as long as I can remember, I was the latter.
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How many of us have had a dream we’ve done nothing about?
If I were in a classroom now, everyone’s hands would be up.
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