During my last month in Texas I felt gripped by the same things I was complacent around only weeks before. The too-salty gulf. Sunburned tourists with deep southern drawls. Humidity. The family bead shop where I felt forced to work since I was five. Suddenly, I loved it all.
Now it's not just my home town that I'm leaving, but my country. And my continent. As exciting as it is to move to Australia, I feel like what we're leaving behind is so rich. And there is so much to miss.
A few quotes for your reading pleasure:
"The shocks of existence: you must learn to take them
more lightly."
--J.M. Coetzee
"You go back home and everything you wished was
different is still the same and everything you wished
was the same is different."
--Cormac McCarthy
"We also need to forgive ourselves for all the things
we didn't do. All the things we should have done."
--M. Schwartz
"All we really want is for no one to have a boring
life, to be impressive."
--Dave Eggers
"You must be sure that the intention in your heart is
large enough to contain all wrong turnings, all
disappointments."
--Cormac McCarthy
