Saturday, August 20, 2011

Bloomability

Tonight is my last Saturday in the United States. It's a reality I've avoided all day long, yet here it is, staring me in the face. Now,I'm fighting the anxiety that comes with leaving the familiar.

I've never been anywhere really. It wasn't until my sophomore year of high school that I even left the state of California. My cousins took me on a camping trip to Oregon and then to Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. Then I caught a wicked case of the wander lust. By senior year, I was determined to live in another state. Colleges flew me out across the country, but the East Coast wasn't a fit, financially or spiritually. So I ended up in Washington, and now I'm leaving the country.

The last four years of my life have been a whirlwind of constant change. I'm unrecognizable from the poofy haired punkess I used to be and I'm still so very unfinished.

In any case, Bloomability is a word from one of my favorite childhood books. It is a non-native English speaker's interpretation of the word possibility. I like it so much more because it conveys the process involved in possibility. It is something natural, a blossoming of sorts. It's my favorite word.

I'm hoping Italy will help me grow as a person, explore the bloomabilities of the universe. Until then, I'm packing up, saying goodbyes and bracing myself for the ride.

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