“Our single perspective is so limited.” I highlighted this quote from Allison Vesterfelt’s book Packing Light back on January 10th. To me this quote speaks about how many different people there are on the planet with different backgrounds, experiences, advantages, and disadvantages. All of these people with all of their different histories create billions of … Continue reading A limited Perspective
Month: March 2015
Adjusting in Mid Flight
Continuing from yesterday's post and where the last quote left off, Vesterfelt wrote, “Maybe what I needed wasn’t fewer expectations, or lower expectations, but the ability to adjust them in the middle of my trip.” This quote came from Vesterfelt when she made it to Mt. Rushmore during her 50 state road trip. She had … Continue reading Adjusting in Mid Flight
Adjusting our Plan
A big challenge for me has been understanding my own personal goal setting. I want to have a plan for where I am going, and what I want to achieve, but it seems to be incredibly difficult for me to set any plans for my life with things constantly evolving and shifting around me. I recently learned … Continue reading Adjusting our Plan
Perspective
In her book about her 50 state voyage, Packing Light, Allison Vesterfelt wrote, “Freedom is less about circumstance than it is about perspective,” while she was camping in the Rocky Mountains. I love this quote because it shows how important our mental approach to life can be. In my personal life I have had thousands … Continue reading Perspective
A Mixture of Emotions
While camping during her 50 state journey, Vesterfelt in her book Packing Light writes, “one sense, its depressing to come upon our own insignificance like this. In another sense, it’s exhilarating.” To me this quote shows how one can change their point of view and focus to see things in positive or negative ways. While she gazed … Continue reading A Mixture of Emotions
A Love of Nature
“I have felt the same thing hundreds of times. In cities I feel small and depressed in my insignificance but in the mountains I feel too much a part of nature to be scared. In nature I find an equilibrium.” Allison Vesterfelt wrote this quote on what was for me page 103 in the Kindle version of … Continue reading A Love of Nature
Do things become more simple over time?
What I have begun to learn as a recent college graduate is echoed by Vesterfelt in a section I highlighted in Packing Light when she wrote about things she was learning and beginning to understand as her 50 state road trip continued on. “The longer I traveled, the more I realized things don’t get more organized … Continue reading Do things become more simple over time?
Chaos and the Unknown vs the Mundane and Predictable
A constant tension in my life is summed up by Allison Vesterfelt in her book Packing Light, “As scared as I was of chaos and the unknown, I was equally scared of the mundane and predictable.” By the time I was half way through college I began to feel a serious angst when looking forwards to my … Continue reading Chaos and the Unknown vs the Mundane and Predictable
Mistakes
Recently I have moved out of the house I grew up in. I moved with my girlfriend of three years across town to an apartment to start out on our own and live our own lives. The process has been exciting, scary, and for us filled with luck. However with all of the luck we … Continue reading Mistakes
Eliminate the Black and White
In the United States we really like the idea that things are either good or bad. My personal belief is that we get locked in to these "either or” ways of thinking because it is easier than trying to process information. Good or bad, Republican or Democrat, lazy or hardworking, all provide shortcuts in our mind … Continue reading Eliminate the Black and White