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03/27/2008
Self Portrait-March Week 4
I'm just a girl, Guess I'm some kind of freak, 'Cause they all sit and stare with their eyes, I'm just a girl.
~lyrics from "I'm Just a Girl" No Doubt-Tragic Kingdom
This is an older photo of me taken in December 2006 when I was traveling through Moscow. (I have been quite sick the past week and don't have the energy to take a photo) I love traveling and can't wait until I can start traveling again. But I always got the strangest looks when I told people I was traveling on my own. One who think I was infected with the plague by the reactions I got from others I met during my travels. A single girl traveling, what a strange and foreign idea. So to clear up a few bits of confusion-Yes, I am scared. Sitting around twiddling my thumbs waiting is just a waste of my life though. My parents don't LET me do anything. I am 30 years old, why do I need permission? Yes, I felt I missed out on some stuff. But wandering around Romania at night on my own is just plain stupid. While I don't need permission, I still have people to answer to. True, I could look at this same things in a book or online. There is nothing that compares to seeing St. Basil's Cathedral with your own eyes, drinking beer in an outside beer garden in January, touring Auschwitz, or hearing first hand how the government in Hungary has changed. So here is a deal, I quit rolling my eyes and sighing when you try to justify what I have done and you can quit trying to fit me into a mold of what is ok for a girl.
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You may have been scared, traveling alone, but I never knew that. I think what you did was wonderful!
You are young, and you had no other serious obligations, so why not see all that you could see and live your life to the fullest, before it became too cluttered with other things and other responsibilities? If you had waited, put it off until you "had the time" you would never had gotten it done, and then you would have missed all the wonderful things you have seen and all the great things you have experienced. Now you have the memories, and they will last you a lifetime, and all that you learned you can one day share with Little One.
Celebrate your uniqueness. You are one of a kind, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.
Hugs :)
Sandie
Posted by: Sandie Knapp | 03/29/2008
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