I've been trying to live life somewhat simple (in my standards anyway haha) :) No superstar lifestyle just yet. School it great, it keeps me grounded. I've realized that I've been living with a lot of emphasis on being grounded.. which is a very recent development starting this year. Having something to compare with the awesomeness I'm lucky enough to get to experience so that I can fully experience the awesomeness when it occurs. Does that make sense?? It's like.. you don't know just how great good food is until you eat crap food.
Being well rounded has always been my thing but now more than ever :).
Someone once tried to psychoanalyze me and find the reason behind my many travels last year. "Are you trying to run away from something?"
At the time I was like umm, no I just like to travel. But looking back, I guess he was (partly) right. I will always have the love of travel but I no longer want the extremes of being gone 9 months out of the year. LA feels much more like home than Hawaii ever did hehe. I'd say I actually enjoy the company of about 1 out of 3 people I meet or at least find them interesting compared to the 1 out of... um 30 in Hawaii. Although I was not running away from a troubling life or anything close to what he thought, I was running away from a unfulfilling life style. It was the constant urge to get off the damn island and grow!
Goes back to Maslow's hierarchy of needs; something you learn in psychology
I had everything on the bottom of the pyramid... basic needs, safety, well loved, maybe over esteemed but I was not "the best I could possibly be" and although I'm still far from it, it's no longer stumped which makes me feel g.r.e.a.t. ! :)
I would never ever ever ever ever raise my kids in Hawaii. It's amazing if anyone can turn even a LITTLE bit ambitious coming from there... it's against all odds! Thank god I got to travel when I was younger and my parents were fob enough to keep me away from being "local"
Anyway gotta finish this later -
Just for reference
According to Maslow, the tendencies of self-actualizing people are as follows:
1. Awareness
* efficient perception of reality
* freshness of appreciation
* peak experiences
* ethical awareness
2. Honesty
* philosophical sense of humour
* social interest
* deep interpersonal relationships
* democratic character structure
3. Freedom
* need for solitude
* autonomous, independent
* creativity, originality
* spontaneous
4. Trust
* problem centered
* acceptance of self, others, nature
* resistance to enculturation - identity with humanity
or go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchy_of_needs :)
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