Does anyone else think 2015 has flown by stupidly fast? People are already talking about NYE for Christ sake!
Much happenings. My (younger) sister got married, I turned 30 (ensue panic & general life crisis) I left my #Sydlyfe (Life in Sydney) and my parents came to visit me in France. (They haven’t been on an international flight in a million years). So that was huge. And my best friend had the first baby. (Actually he was born two days after the big 3-0).
Meanwhile I have just been away for the past 4 months overseas living another amazing Euro Summer. Felt I needed to squeeze one more in just because I could, my 30th birthday present to myself. Feel the same way about working holiday visas, I’m tempted to get one more Canadian one just because it’s my last chance and why not.
However, reality always finds you (she’s hard to avoid the bitch) and after returning home this week I heard a voice from somewhere gently suggest, “Maybe it’s time to settle Lauren, just a bit”. Of course, I swatted the annoying voice away like an irritating fly. Shush. People like me don’t settle. We travel. And you know. Avoid adulting. And its common knowledge babies will happen. So will weddings. You can’t be home for everything.
But I couldn’t deny coming home this time did feel different. I actually…didn’t hate it.
Usually I have a few weeks of travel depression followed by immediate plans for my escape, followed by copious amounts of drinking and bad decisions before finally resigning myself to getting an “accepted job” and paying overpriced rent somewhere. Because yes I’m 30 and don’t own a house. Because you know, I’ve travelled. A lot.
So home it is hey. Brisbane. Bris-Vegas. I guess you aren’t too bad with all your family and friends (+ babies) and warm weather all year round. I think it’s time for me to accept that I will forever just think that life somewhere else would be that little bit better. The grass is always greener syndrome combined with my overwhelming sense of FOMO (see earlier post on this).
God knows I have lived everywhere else during my 20’s. Should probably give my own capital city a chance in my 30's.