Looking Forward

I try my best to be in the here and now. I try to remember to focus my mind on today and I try to keep in mind that tomorrow is not guaranteed and as such should not steal any of my energy. However, I'm struggling at the moment to remain here, now. I am anxious about that future. I blame the cloudy uncertainty ahead. About a year ago I also had no idea what the future held and I was a-ok with that. What's different now? Nothing really, except this overwhelming feeling of obligation that's pressuring me into figuring my sh** out.

Anyway, this post was not meant to be a rant about how I still have no idea where I'll be in a month, and how I am still waiting for someone to give me a chance to prove I'm the teacher I claim to be. Rather, I meant to make a list of the things I want to achieve in the near future. And by "things I want to achieve" I really mean places I want to go. For some reason, my mind is fixated again on travel and moving and adventure.

1. Denmark
2. Sweden
3. Spain
4. Thailand

I don't want this to be a list of places I want to someday go. No, this is a list of places I will go to before the end of 2013. Thailand is all but settled, we've been dreaming of that for months. Spain just sounds warm and sunny and thus so appealing when we've been shivering in the flat for weeks now. Sweden is Sweden and so I must go. Denmark: see reasons re: Sweden. 

I find it ridiculous that I haven't been anywhere exotic since June's trip to Iceland. That trip was amazing. Money is tight, and that's why I spent my entire half-term break lesson planning on the couch rather than gallivanting off to a near-by foreign town. So, now that I've taken a moment to set out my future goals, I hereby resume focus on the present moment.