Project

Welcome, welcome.

You have found your self here: on Ellie's semi-kept-up blog.

Lots of tidbits and nothingness reside here. Don't feel obligated to read anything.

If you're interested, here's a random blog I wrote (+photos) while traveling in New Zealand in 2012: newsieland.wordpress.com

With love,

Ellie

Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Things I Learned/Re-Learned From My Boston/New York Trip

Less internet is more.
  • Meaning: I'm not thinking about virtual, often inane issues, opinions, and likes during my day, and suddenly I'm living my life in whatever Ellie-way is most fulfilling. 
Giving is always good.
  • Meaning: even if I'm not sure if the homeless person I am giving the money to is going to use it to help themselves, it's still a good thing to give the money if it is coming from place of unconditional love.
Stay active during the day, sleep during the night.
  • Meaning: my body functions best when it rises with the light, and shuts down with the night. Fighting real and natural sleep by watching a screen projecting a fake reality is ridiculous. Sitting around during the day and avoiding the world and the people in it is not fulfilling; being with and around people is sometimes so, so hard, but ultimately relationship with a real human - even bad relationship - is more fulfilling than relationship with a screen.
Defining myself really isn't as important as I make it out to be.
  • Meaning: I don't need to know what I think about everything. I don't need to know "who I am". Go back to the stay active and in relationship with people and place and it'll all be okay.
Decide to be brave.
  • Meaning: facing my fears and daily anxieties is legitimately scary as hell, but how else to move forward?
Lastly - do things I love.
  • Meaning: no one knows the joys and sorrows of my heart the way I do. Seek what makes me come alive.

No comments: