Returning Home
Ever since I left Norway, there's been a strong pull to come back. After 17 years of being gone, I've finally returned.
JOURNALS
11/30/20252 min read
From time to time, I watch birds fly through the skies. There are moments where they glide in almost complete stillness. Their wings don’t move—they just hover mid-air. It’s in this moment where the hot air rises from the ground and, in return, cancels out the force of gravity. So they rest in this pocket of harmony.
These moments remind me of embracing what you are. Every species in nature embraces and embodies what it is. And it seems that only human beings have the tendency—and the ability—to do otherwise.
Almost one year ago, I made the move to Norway, and it feels absurd how fast time flies. I arrived here on April 1st, and I’m three months away from reaching the one-year mark. One year ago, I couldn’t imagine what my life would be like—let alone thinking five years ahead
Well, today is just about that: Timing
Tutorial
It’s odd to say, but life feels like it just started for me in my 30s. The entire time before that felt like a tutorial—finding out who I am, what I am. And now, I get to embrace it, become it.
Now it feels like I am actually playing the character I’m supposed to play, and not this blurred version still trying to figure out what my abilities are.
Becoming
Although knowing who I am and what my abilities are, it doesn’t stop here. The game just began. Now I have to figure out how I can utilize my abilities in the right places.
For instance, suppose I was a druid who is connected to nature and had healing abilities.
Do I now go around and heal everything that is injured?
Who, and how do I know what I am supposed to heal?
How do I make the judgment between what to heal and what not?
These are some of the questions that run through my mind, and I guess they will unfold themselves through the journey of my 30s.
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In other words, I now know my strengths and weaknesses—what do I do with these? The only place this question falls back on is: What do I want to do?
Knowing how I want to impact the world, or leave my mark on it, helps a lot when navigating toward my north star.