The date suddenly hits you
One month until you finish work, another few weeks before you leave - naturally you start winding projects to a close and packing your things. There is so much to do, where do you begin?
You start with the immediate, making sure to take in every new moment and experience, tallying up all you've yet to do and all you've already done. Then these lists take you back in your memory to the beginning of this journey.
Lets start over
Packing started the day you arrived, in a reverse way: everything was new and you had to take it all in somehow. Sights, tastes, smells, new people, new work, new everything. All of it at once and you were pushing all this excitement into every day, packing in as much as you could into a day.
It very soon stopped being new, and even though you're miles from where you began it all started to feel familiar, but you were given the chance to be unfamiliar. Not unfamiliar with others, but with yourself. Given the chance, you now have the opportunity to grow in a new environment foreign yet familiar to the one you came from.
But now you are at the end and you've still got to pack
How do you fit all of this garden of change into one suitcase, one backpack, one sentence when people ask you how your year was? You want to ask them, 'Do you have a year for me to adequately explain?'
All you can do is smile when you answer, 'It was good, and I am still trying to unpack all of my experience that has changed me through the past year, though I did not bring nearly as much physically back as I left with!' But the memories you packed into your heart along the way
They take up no room and weigh the heaviest of all.
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| Garden from Rocamadour, France |
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