Holiday in Dublin & What's Next?

As the New Year is approaching and everyone is writing down their resolutions, I am sitting back and enjoying what a nice Christmas I had here in Dublin. Spent Christmas Eve with new friends and a nice meal and then the special day with someone whom I love! This is what the holiday is about, right? I missed the usual routine with my family but adapting to where I am and trying something new for a change was nice.

Christmas consisted of a nice morning coffee and opening of presents followed by a pleasant "brunch" with wine. Slaving in the kitchen, Mattia made types of bruschetta: pear, walnut & cheese- prawn, parmesan & tomato-fig, ham, walnut & cheese. Went splendid with the bitter red wine from South Africa that we seem to keep buying weekly. Movies filled the rest of the day.

Following Christmas day, we went to the City Centre to find thousands of people, scrambling from store to store, spending hundreds of dollars on top name brands, perfume, clothes, shoes like it was Christmas all over again! The sales...another dollar, another day.

It is bittersweet when Christmas is over and everyone has to go back to work (except me for the moment). There still is the New Year coming up, but it is so hard to believe that 2012 has passed us all by. I know some say that when you get older, time goes faster. I didn't believe it until now. Being 25 years old and about to begin the year 2013. I remember how big the Millennium was...it seems like yesterday.

At this point, I know people like to reflect on good moments and bad from the previous year. What could have I done differently? Oh, that was a fun time we had. I will never do that again.

This is not my intention of mind. Yes, the year 2012 was good, it was bad, it was a learning experience, actually a once in a lifetime adventure. But so is now. I am not going to glance back, I am only going to look forward. This next year. What can it bring? It's exciting, you know? I realized that I have grown up a bit. Sound silly, nerdy, or whatever? A bit, yes. But as Mattia & I, on a Saturday night sitting on our nice, big, red couch watching our 4th Al Pacino movie with a pint and pizza...well...it was nice. It is a good feeling to just relax with someone. Connect with yourself, other people...this is one out of many reasons I found that I belong right where I am in this exact moment. How do you feel in this exact moment?

What's next? What will 2013 bring? Who knows. I do know that if your happy with where you are, what your doing...just continue your life. Its just a new year, nothing new has to change. Let life, naturally bring things to you. Don't search to hard for them.

Well, for those who are not happy with where you are or what your doing...change it. Find a new job. Quit your old one. Find those people who make you laugh constantly and surround yourself of them. Eat good food. Exercise. Have a nice cocktail once in a while. Hobby it up! Plan a vacation... Do what it is that will make you happy, even if it is just for a split second. As I have been saying, as you get older the time speeds up.

Wanderlust: Patient with what will come next and find what it is that makes you smile.