I've been home from the Amazon trip for about two weeks now and it's crazy just seeing the shift in everything. You can actually feel the growth after such a long, rejuvenating time without contact to anything familiar. Perspectives about everything has shifted and you don't quite feel in your place. You kind of get a different idea on the severity of real problems verses the in-severity of your own problems. Don't discredit any of the feelings you have about something(s), but going on this trip just takes you a step back so you have time to think about what really is important, what will pass with time, and what really just isn't a problem.
I'm not quite sure what struck this in me, but it has made quite the difference in my life and my opinions, outlooks, etc.
I have a feeling that if anyone got to go out and see and feel what I saw and felt, they would be impacted severely. Sometimes its just genuinely foreign to feel the changes in yourself over such things that seem so miniscule. It's almost addicting. After you feel the first wave of changes you just want more, you feel the humanity in yourself growing more and more.
I feel that I'm just moving into things that I can't put into words, but they are things that are just so important I feel that everyone should just sit down and think about times that they've changed, things that have changed them and continue to change them, in ways they want to change, and more.
So, for me, just think. Because I've been thinking a lot. With every post I try to fit more and more of the pieces together to maybe, one day, have my thoughts in a complete puzzle.
A picture we took during the Amazon trip with a group of traditional dancers. Spot the gringa!