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Organic Fruit Loops

Following your heart and pursuing your dreams is the cliché that we all aspire to. The difference is that if you are a ‘passionate’, a person that is guided by what feels good at the time or goes with the flow versus conforming to what is considered conventional. I’m not saying that you cant have a 9-5 gig and therefore are not passionate about it or some other hobby, this is very far from the truth. But what is conventional these days anyways?

I speak for me (of course) when I say this. But there is no way in hell I could lead a conventional lifestyle of routine and mundanity (if there is such a word?, and if there isn't, then now there is! trademark it!). I need allot of time to my self to rejuvenate, allow my head to breathe and offer energy to those I work with and people that are important to me, the best of me. A little ridiculous huh!

What I have learnt about my self through the years and recently accepted is that I am a fruit loop. A healthy one made of home grown organic vegetables with no artificial colours or flavours. I need constant stimulation, variety, fresh minds, new connections, long standing connections and friendships, rejuvenation, space to be creative, nature, nature, nature and silence.

ps. if you remember the fruit loops ad on Australian TV in the 80's and 90's, the Toucan Sam followed his nose and found fruit loops.

So when I woke up this morning and realised I had only 17 days to go, I was a little spooked about my journey that I am about to embark upon. Not because I am afraid of a squillion Indians wanting to share the same cubic inch as me, or that Everest is too high, but because the (small) part of me that wants to return sooner to get things up and running in terms of my business is rapidly getting more minute by the day. The larger part of me, the bird, the nomad, the cameleon that thrives on change and adaptation is prepared to set off for quite some time. Perhaps 4-6 months. I know I just have to wait and see, but in my mind I kind of want to frame it so that I can mentally prepare. The little voices are saying "See where things go and see where things end up", another voice says "things at home will always be there" another says "keep the connections you have" its kinda noisy in there, so I just breathe and remember that as long as I am being true to me at each point in my mind along the way, then that's all there is.