{"id":180,"date":"2015-10-12T16:00:10","date_gmt":"2015-10-12T16:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychanter.com\/?p=180"},"modified":"2015-11-06T16:32:15","modified_gmt":"2015-11-06T16:32:15","slug":"struggling-towards-what-you-strive-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/struggling-towards-what-you-strive-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Struggling Towards What You Strive For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am weary.<\/p>\n<p>My head hurts.<\/p>\n<p>My shoulders are stiff.<\/p>\n<p>My back is aching.<\/p>\n<p>My hands are dry and shredded.<\/p>\n<p>I have bags under my eyes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;I can&#8217;t stop smiling\u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The latest mammoth task is complete; all my stuff is gone, some\u00a0to storage, some to the highest bidder, most\u00a0to\u00a0charity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m sitting on the grass in Walpole Park in Ealing, on a sunny, warm Monday afternoon.\u00a0It&#8217;s quiet and tranquil. I have this whole green expanse to myself, the type of which I probably won&#8217;t see again for a long time with the lack of traditional parks in Thailand. Beaches, jungle, yes. Glorious beauty to look forward to, for sure.\u00a0But there is always a special place in my heart for a\u00a0good old-fashioned\u00a0park. There&#8217;s the odd cyclist drifting around, reminding me of past days spent in my local Vondelpark during my time in the cyclist heaven of Amsterdam. There are squeals and laughter behind me as children do their childish thing in the\u00a0playground behind me. I&#8217;m watching a mom and her cute little 2-year old kid kicking\u00a0a football around over there on the grass. I take this moment to soak up the last of this\u00a0peaceful parklife atmosphere before I fly away from here tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The last few weeks have been yet more\u00a0hard work; it seems that every step on this journey so far has been <em>hard<\/em>, a series of struggles and challenges. Completing the dissertation and Masters was an intellectual feat &#8211; but clearing out my apartment and\u00a0preparing\u00a0to move has been an enormous struggle in its own way. There have been moments where I have despaired, crashed, even cried &#8211; but all the while, through the hard days of logistical hassles and\u00a0physical and mental exhaustion,\u00a0I kept my sights firmly set on the end goal, never forgetting where I was going and what\u00a0all this was for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-30-18.41.47.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"183\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/12\/struggling-towards-what-you-strive-for\/screenshot-2015-10-30-18-41-47\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-30-18.41.47.png\" data-orig-size=\"1920,1080\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\u00a9HappyChanter savour the struggle\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-30-18.41.47-300x169.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-30-18.41.47-1024x576.png\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-183\" src=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-30-18.41.47-1024x576.png\" alt=\"Savour The Struggle\" width=\"552\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-30-18.41.47-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-30-18.41.47-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Screenshot-2015-10-30-18.41.47.png 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/a>No matter where you are or what you&#8217;re doing in your life right now, we are all striving for something, every one of us. We have a place where we want to be, a goal we are working towards &#8211; and that&#8217;s why we work so hard now. That&#8217;s what makes the hard days worth it. It is our\u00a0dreams, desires, wishes\u00a0we have to keep our focus on.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">You are the master of your life, your existence, and whatever you are striving for, <em>you can create<\/em>. You can make it happen. And in doing so, in making your intention the motivation behind every action, in seeing each little step realised along the way &#8211;\u00a0you learn to relish every challenge\u00a0on the journey. You understand that it&#8217;s all part of the bigger picture which is falling into place around you. And you give yourself a pat on the back as you go!\u00a0Wherever you are now, take pride in yourself for what you have already accomplished, overcome, faced, dealt with; acknowledge yourself\u00a0for working so hard and getting shit\u00a0done.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I have just packed up an entire apartment, a full life&#8217;s worth of stuff, all by myself! That&#8217;s something I certainly take pride in and congratulate myself for. It&#8217;s also something I accept as one of the steps I needed to take to get where I&#8217;m going.\u00a0And in selling, donating, discarding\u00a0all of the &#8220;stuff&#8221; that has made up my life, rather than mourning\u00a0the loss, I take a little moment of gratitude and say goodbye to each &#8220;thing&#8221;, to that phase of my life. I consciously appreciate every moment of this latest\u00a0chapter, and all those that came before &#8211; but ultimately my\u00a0focus must lie\u00a0on the now, and what lies ahead.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I am tired, sore, weary, but oh so very happy. The time has come to say goodbye to this lovely London life. The time has come to move forward, to really step beyond the boundaries of my comfort zone, to take the one bag of possessions I have left and carry it into a new life, a new world for me. I&#8217;ve never done the backpacking travelling thing, I&#8217;ve never gone anywhere exotic for longer than a short holiday. The anticipation\u00a0of the unknown which lies ahead slightly scares but mostly exhilarates me. It is a new life I am consciously creating, and I\u00a0am\u00a0excited to see it take shape.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Home to Dublin tomorrow for a week of reunions with family and friends, and likely emotional farewells,\u00a0and then off to the land of sand, sea and smiles! My own feels like\u00a0the biggest in the world right now \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/signature-small.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"116\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/index.php\/2015\/06\/26\/story-so-far\/signature-small\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/signature-small.png\" data-orig-size=\"118,74\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"\u00a9HappyChanter signature small\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/signature-small.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/signature-small.png\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-116\" src=\"https:\/\/happychanter.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/signature-small.png\" alt=\"signature small\" width=\"118\" height=\"74\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am weary. 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