Taking charge
Week 23: June 24
Dear Cassie,
Every time the end of June rolls around so does a crashing wave of nostalgia.
Every summer in my childhood until I was 19 years old, I would head up to summer camp for the last week of June to start an amazing summer. I was a camper for many years, but then worked my way to being a camp counsellor, and got to have a real impact on the lives of my campers.
My life looks really different now. I really miss those summers, when it felt like I had nothing to worry about. It feels like a faraway dream, or a different person got to live those lives. I think what I loved about it so much was that I was in a community. Just like I’m drawn to things, like the yoga teacher training in Bali, I just love being part of a group that experiences something very niche together.
I feel like I don’t have that right now, and I need to look for it. But, I’m trying not to get sucked into the nostalgia blues. Matt told me this week — “nostalgia is the ghost of gratitude.” I should be grateful for what I have experienced, and what I am currently experiencing because today will be the nostalgia of five years from now.
I joined a local yoga studio near my apartment, and I’m hoping that I can return to that gratefulness and presentness that I felt earlier this year in Bali. It’s all a work in progress.
I hope you have an amazing week <3 I love you!
Sincerely,
Meera
Dear Meera,
Happy Monday, bestie! I hope you had a wonderful weekend!
This week, I wanna write about something that is wildly obvious. Something I am still getting used to.
That we can do anything we want.
Sometimes, as I am still settling into adulthood, I have a little baby epiphone that I don’t have to go places or see people I don’t want to see. I don’t have to do things I don’t want to do. For so long in my life I have felt trapped or even confused into thinking I couldn’t get out of a situation or a place and it is SO healing to just be able to leave or not even choose that in the first place. I have a privilege of so much choice in my life and this week I’ve been thinking about how I need to do more with it.
This can be as simple as just choosing something fun with my friends. Like this weekend we went to an escape room and a museum and we just had the best time. But it can also mean that I should take action on some bigger things, like publishing a book for example. I’ve always wanted to and I am ready to do what I can to make it happen.
I guess what I am trying to say is how great it is to understand that I do have the choice and that I can do what I want to do. So why not do it now :)
I hope you know that you can do so many amazing things too! And that you already have done incredible stuff. Sending so much love <3333
Sincerely,
Cassie