Mamihlapinatapai

“A look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that both desire but which neither one wants to start.”

Travel and Growing Up

I want to go somewhere. Yesterday, I worked on updating my travel blog and I think it gave me the travel fever again. I still need to update about my travels in Latin America, but all of Europe is complete (only like a year later).

I would love for travel to be cheaper, then I would go visit my best friend in Australia and my boyfriend in Albany, NY. Did you know that a plane ticket to Albany, NY from Pittsburgh, PA is $350?!? And that's not even at a peak time, like a long weekend-I was going to try to go for Labor Day weekend, but that's even more expensive, so virtually impossible. He only moved back to Albany three days ago, but it seems like a lifetime since I've seen him last. Which is lame, perhaps, but he left while Jess was in Vegas with Kate, and Anna's been in Australia for a month already, and I just felt very sad and alone when he left.

It's just strange; we're actually growing up. I'm looking into graduate schools and plans for after graduation, people are getting engaged and married, we're all going our own directions and moving away. It's scary and weird after spending the last 3-4 years with these people, some of them you may never see again. Not that that's

necessarily a bad thing, but it will suck to see the people I do actually care about move away, or for me to move away from them. I grew up here in Oakland, really. I became the person I am now, the person who will make the major decisions of my life. Its terrifying really, but I do have good friends and a wonderful boyfriend, all of whom will listen to me, be great sounding boards, and let me know their opinions on my potential life paths.

But really, does life ever get any easier from here?