Increasingly, I've been feeling for the past year or so that I am host to an infinite amount of learning experiences.  I can't say I've been happier than I have been recently, for quite some time.  Reflecting on the past year of my life, looking back at who I was last summer, the academic year in Corvallis, who I feel that I am/becoming currently - they all wear such different masks.  It took me so long to be content with who I am, my choices, my decisions, the happenings and circumstances that were and will continue to be simply out of my hands.  But now that I feel I've begun to really grasp this concept, abstractly yet in a very real way at the same time, I can honestly say I'm incredibly fulfilled.  Sure, there is a laundry list of things I'd like to do right this very moment, places I'd like to see, boys I'd like to kiss (well that isn't a laundry list, but yet it intrudes most of my daily thought process - oivey), moments I'd like to capture on film, adventures I'd like to take part in... but I know that all of these moments will come, if I let them, if I chase them.

I'm caught in this very funny learning curve of life that some people like to refer to as a 'transitional stage,' and I can't say I disagree with that title.  Many of the things that would burden me and wear me down in months past are suddenly non issues.  I have this extreme sense of weightlessness, the world works its magic whether I attempt to intervene or not.  I know I'm loved, even in times when it isn't being conveyed or I'm not particularly 'up' on myself.  I love immensely, I give of myself and I don't do this in any sort of act of martyrdom, but from a place of true passion for the people I surround myself with.  I'm happy, and that's a whole hell of a lot more than I've been able to say in quite some time.  I'm so excited to see where this life takes me in the next 6 months, the next year... college will be over, bills will pile up (yikes), countries will be explored (fingers crossed), moves will be made (of more than one kind).

Here's to loving life, and new adventures.  I'll cheers to that a million times over.