I am getting old and I don´t travel enough. That is the quick and dirty. If you don´t have time to read the rest of this post, you more or less know the whole story with my first sentence. If not, keep reading.

I am getting old. For the past few months, I always thought I caught a glimpse of a random white hair when looking in the mirror, but could never find it when I tried to investigate it closer. Well, this weekend I found multiple white hairs. I am old! I made various promises to myself over the past few days- to eat better and organic food when I can...to drink more water...to sleep more...to do yoga regularly. I am hoping this little concotion of life altering methods will help curb or at least postpone my white hair. But moreover, the white hair is simply an indicator of my stressful and work-focused life.

After meeting A. a couple weeks ago, my aspirations in Germany started to creep up on me again. I have started thinking about grad school, timing and locations in Germany as well as what I want to be doing in 10 years. Overall, I have come to no conclusions. That is to say, I want to live in Germany again. I constantly fear my German skills are slipping, but I don´t have any sort of advanced skills in my job which would help propel me in any sort of direction if I went there. So, grad school would definately be a consideration since it would give me a visa to go and stay there as well as a purpose and degree for being there. But again, no real direction as to what I would study. I´ll consider all of this for the next few years.

That all sort of leads into my not traveling much. I do little bits of traveling here and there, but I haven´t been on an adventure in a while. Like a real proper adventure where I hop on a plane or train, end up somewhere and wander. The world is too big for me to stay in one place. I need to move. I thought about going back to Germany for a couple of weeks. Perhaps, I´ll consider that. We´ll see where the year takes me.