After a seven-month trial separation, I’ve decided to get back together with my wordpress blog. I’ve just realized how much I missed her.
Coming home from Vietnam was a real shock both for my mentality and for my heart. It was easy to settle back into life as I knew it before, but it seemed different after seeing the things I had seen overseas. I had the opportunity to live at home with my family for 5 months, then Pete and I moved back to Oz in November. Disappointingly, I lost the urge to write about my life, as it didn’t seem all that exciting anymore. Back to the grind, Pete went back to work and I went back to study to finish a Sociology degree. We are both happy with our choice, but coming back to the western world after such a long whirlwind adventure was really tough to do.
I’ve started to see the beauty in everyday mundane things again, which I think I lost the ability to do for a while. Everything bored me a bit and I didn’t find things amusing since everything was familiar, and I was used to living in a world of unknown things. I start to notice beautiful photo ops again, where I make a box with my fingers and frame a subject with my hands to see what the photo would look like. For so long I didn’t feel the need to photograph anything here. I almost resented things that were familiar and certainly wouldn’t waste my time taking pictures. I needed some dirty streets, asian school kids or tropical beaches to arouse my photographic sense.
Thankfully, I’m back in the swing of things again, and my creative juices are starting to flow. I want to write again, I want to shoot beautiful scenes again, and I want to appreciate life. Because it’s silly to think that there aren’t amazing things all around you no matter where you are, you just have to find it in you to look at them in a new light.
It’s a beautiful sunny summery day here in Melbourne, so maybe that’s why I feel so full of hope and so high on life. I have to admit that during the flooding and constant dismal weather, I was ready to jump on a plane to somewhere experiencing a real summer, but on days like this I thank my lucky stars that I live in such a beautiful country. Photos of this beautiful country and regular excerpts of my thoughts will follow on a regular basis. Stay tuned!
Love, from Melbourne.
