One year ago today I moved to Encinitas, California from Minnesota. Best move I ever made. After living here a year (except for a three-month visit back to Minnesota in the summer), I can’t even bear to think what my life would have been like had I stayed in Minnesota. I can’t imagine not knowing all the great people I now know. I can’t imagine never having had all the life-affirming experiences I’ve had since I’ve been here. And it’s all because I said yes to life and ventured outside of my comfort zone.
Encinitas immediately felt like home. I’m supposed to be here. Where are you supposed to be? What are you supposed to be doing? And who are you supposed to be doing it with? If you’re living in a place or working in a job or living with a person that’s not right for you, that doesn’t feel like home, what are you waiting for? There’s less sand in the top half of your hourglass than there was yesterday, and nobody knows how much sand they have left to work with.
Is it scary to make big life changes? Of course! That’s half the fun. Don’t wait one more day to start planning the best of the rest of your life. Dig deep within yourself and find the courage to live life as it was meant to be lived. Above all, live so that you never have to utter these five words as you leave this world: “I wish I would have . . .”
Life is always either a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.
Edith Wharton
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Tags: comfort zone, courage, dreams, encinitas
February 20, 2012 at 3:05 PM
SO TRUE…We’re basically at this point *again* and our goal coincidentally is to go to Encinitas! How bizarre to be reading your entire blog area after talking about this for like over a year now and we’re both SRF devotees too. Thanks for the inspiration!
February 20, 2012 at 3:06 PM
My pleasure, Renee. And you know as well as I do that there’s noting bizarre about it!