Pause. Rewind. Play.

Sitting at Darling Harbor this weekend. Right on the edge. Occasionally dipping my feet into the warm water. Sipping my Starbucks Latte. Sharing stories about our pasts. One of those moments I don’t ever want to let slip away. This was one of those times in life when it almost felt as if time was standing still. The moments we wish would last a lifetime. When for just a short while everything feels perfect. Everything was calm. Minus the five minutes Stacia and Sean decided to jump into the harbor! I wish that my description could take you to that moment, maybe you will get a sense for it, but it won’t ever be vivid enough.
Australia has continued to be really great. Yesterday Tyler asked, “If you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?” I hardly had to think. “Right here.” It’s not to say that I don’t miss home, but I know that here is where I am meant to be at this time. People are often so focused on what is next, and I know that I am often guilty of this. Sometimes we forget to just soak in our moment in time because we want to keep moving. We know that there is more in store and I think we get greedy in wanting to discover this, instead of just letting it unfold. We are living an unfinished story. You know when you get a book, flip to the very last page and read the last sentence just because you cannot wait to see what happens. (I’ve been guilty of this also). How empty feeling does that leave you though. The whole book has just lost a huge portion of its excitement. In life we can’t just flip to the last page, we aren’t given all of that information. We just have to keep going. We live in a busy world that tells us to go, go, go. We find ourselves trying to plan on where to get next and we move so fast that we miss out on so much along the way. We get frustrated with obstacles that come in our path and hinder our direct movement from one task to the other. The world doesn’t usually tell us to smell the roses!
While walking home from Darling Harbor we ended up getting lost, we ended up right back at Darling Harbor. For many this would be ridiculously frustrating. This gave us a good laugh though. But after about an hour and a half, some slurpees, some ice cream, and Tyler saving my life by helping me not get hit by cars, we ended up back at our hostel. Putting my head on the pillow I just felt reminded to breathe in, slow down, take advantage of my moments, make them memorable, enjoy where I am at the very moment, and breathe out.