About My First Post of 2025 // Happy New Year!! 🇧🇷✨🎉
Greetings, interannual travelers!
I took the last days off from most things, including digitally writing; even though I did it on paper too. I plan on posting a lot about the last few days, so I hope you keep following my blog and my trip!
One could argue, and I guess I am one of those, that these rituals for time passages we humans adore are completely phony, as my dear friend Holden would say; from the perspective of time and space, nothing changes because of humanity adding another year into our Gregorian calendars. However, we're not time nor space. We're biological beings armed with a rational thinking mind (a weapon that can hurt both others and ourselves) and with a profound sense of self, and without our rituals we'd be lost in the chaotic nature of existence.
Having said all that, I really do appreciate the opportunity I have been given to be alive and able to share my thoughts through these words, and to spread love through my actions. And the last and first days of a (human-created-measure-of-time called) year are always a moment I try to use to reflect on the person I've been for the last 365 (or 366 :P) days, and who I'd like to be for the next portion of them. An useful exercise is to do this reflection affectionately and compassionately with yourself. What is done has already been decided, and what is to be is still a mystery; what we can control is what we're doing at the present moment. And it's our choice wether we want to try and be the best person we can.
We're leaving Calgary, and I can only be thankful for my dear cousin for, first off letting us stay with them, but most importantly for always being here for me with this so profound and truthful loving connection. I'll miss'em so fucking much. But that's life, we've really enjoyed every minute spent there, and now the saudades will aid us in remembering how amazing those days have been. We'll be arriving soon to our next destination, and there I'll continue to experiment in this complex and sometimes truly unbelievable experience that being alive is.
Happy Ritual of Passage of Time for you, may 2025 be a better year for everyone! ✨