Recently I went on a long holiday to Japan, my dream destination for many, many years. But I never felt ready for such a financial and time consuming commitment. Aside from that I also wanted to be able to speak some Japanese before I went there. So in the end, I had an endless supply of excuses to not do what I wanted.
So, some months I ago, I took the leap, book the flight, book my Japanese lessons, and focused on it. It was one of the best decision I’ve taken in a long time. But that’s going to be the story for another post. What I want to share today, is deeper than that.
What I discovered there was surprising. After some days adjusting to the new situation: holidays, far away and alone, it started to feel great, too great, almost like reconnecting with my old self. And that shocked me. I thought that version of me was dead, that growing up explained why I became more ‘boring‘ and ‘less crazy‘.
And how wrong I was.
The days kept passing by, and I was becoming more and more my true self. Or I should rather say, my true self was coming back again to life. It just felt right. Once you remove all the clutter of your regular life, work, reading the news and your old habits, you become whole again.
And that made me wonder, while I was there as well once I was back home. How much of ourselves is lost due to society, work, the place we live in? In short, our environment? And thats my current struggle right now, how many things are in my current environment that suppress my true self? And also, how to prevent them from affecting me that way?
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