Visiting Home After One Year

 I've been home for less than 24 hours and I finally got some deep sleep after about 2 weeks of consistently low quality sleep. It feel like I had already been jetlagged, and I am just now beginning to get out of it. A rested body helps my mind feel at peace :)

I have some family members who have recently moved here to Virginia from Peru, they have begun a whole new life. Out of necessity they have to work some random jobs for now in retail and fast food, I hope that I can be helpful for their journey. If anyone should benefit from my new coaching skills it should be my family.

I woke up around 5am this morning and went for a walk around my hometown. Watching the sky change from dark to light is amazing. It reminded me to be thankful for this experience. To be thankful is free, and a by-product of gratitude is what wise people call 'happiness'. So by logic, 'happiness' is free. However many people do not have faith in the power of gratitude. For some people, nothing they consume is ever enough. Have you ever met sad millionaires? Their energy is uncomfortably dark.

I'm suddenly thinking about how I want to spend the rest of my life. I want to help the planet heal as efficiently as possible until I die. The planet itself will also die in the faaar future, and I wish to help it to be healthy until then :)

I feel my mind is still detoxing. It wants to continue seeking 'happiness', but my mind thinks that happiness is related to pleasure. I intellectually know that it's not, but it's taking some time for my nervous system to accept this. It makes sense though, after countless generations of seeking happiness via pleasure it will take some time for that programming to completely fade away. Nevertheless, I'm glad that the fading has already begun and I can deal with the withdrawal symptoms with gratitude.

Wake up, do what comes naturally to you until your time is up, and then wave goodbye to this amazing experience labeled as 'life'.