So I’ve had some interesting thoughts over the past few days………
JB said at dinner the other night that I’m either really brave or really crazy to be here without a job, a place to stay, not many friends, no family etc. I think I’m a little of both. In one way, if it was really easy to move countries, then it wouldnt be interesting to do. But it is actually possible, people do it all the time. And then, what is the point of life anyway? To be comfortable? Yes……..and no.
We are not here to be so comfortable as to be complacent. Complacency is a cause of so much evil in the world: relationship breakdowns, depression, obesity etc. It closes our eyes to whats really happening around us. Doesnt allow us to really appreciate the beautiful things we have. Its so much easier to sit in our comfort zone. We dont know what we have/had (beautiful family, a great husband/boyfriend, the great barrier reef, the ablility to travel the world, the ability to walk, the ability to feed ourselves etc etc) until its gone.
But we’re ALL so susceptible to it. We really do, in a way, dislike change. We dislike having to change our view points. We dislike having to make new friends, or find a new job. Its hard. It seems like SUCH an effort. But should we allow ourselves to be so complacent, so resistant or uncaring to change, even when it comes to following our dreams? Even crazy dreams? I would have thought that following a dream is the best and most easy reason to make changes in our lives! And what about making changes for love? For someone that you really care about? Isnt that also a fantastic reason to make changes to our current complacent habits? And what about a dream job? Why shouldnt we take take steps to try and achieve the thing that may just be the highlight of our life?
Change (within reason) is what we need to live. A good kick up the pants once in a while (either by giving one to yourself, getting one from someone else or just from circumstances) is what we all need. Its such a cliche, but we do, only live once. We have the opportunity today to start doing things that make us truly happy (even if they turn out to be massive failures!).
I thank the global financial crisis for giving me the kick up the pants I needed to move to Paris 
Give someone you love a kick up the pants today!!
You’re taking to blogging like a duck to water. I am so proud!
I am not so sure that complacency is the cause of physical illnesses such as depression, though.
A lot of really good points in this blog Kristie, some I relate to alot.
Keep up the blogging, I love it x
Amen sister!
And sometimes the kick up the pants comes… and you hate it. And you hate it for months and months, and you just need to stick with it (as much as you kick and scream and put your loved ones through hell…) cause eventually things come right and you know it was the right decision.
Miss Paris – I’ve just started reading your blog.
I brought a journal to Moscow but it remains blank. But you have inspired me to put pen to paper – thank you darls.
I know how you feel. How the hell did I end up in Moscow??? It was no dream of mine.
But being with Rich was. So there it is.
I’m slowly learning how to ‘live’ again …. this time with a Russian accent!
M x