So, Where To Next?

So, where to next? 

This is hands down the question that I get asked the most. From my friends, to my family, to friends of my parents that I barely know, everyone's question is always about where I am heading next. 

The answer? 

I don't know. 

I don't have anything grand planned. Fall is usually my travel time, but I don't have anything in mind. I may just do a handful of small weekend trips to visit some of my friends around the country or maybe a surf and yoga retreat somewhere because I always need my fix of salt water. Maybe I will just hang around home a bit and start to actually put money into my savings account again (boring, I know). 

It seems a little strange not having some big month long, or longer, trip to look forward to. It's the first time in the last 4 years that I haven't had some trip planned. In the past, I always rushed to start planning the next trip as soon as I arrived home from the last. The upcoming trip always gave me something to look forward to. It gave me a reason to keep showing up to the office job I hated. It gave me an answer when someone asked me what my plan was, what was coming next. 

Don't get me wrong, there will be more grand adventures. I don't like to stay put for too long. For now though, I'm feeling content not knowing what's coming next, which I haven't felt in a long time. Thinking too long about the future too much does invite my not so nice friend Abby into the party, but it doesn't scare me like it used to. I don't feel the pressure to have an answer to peoples questions about what comes next and I don't care their opinions of my plan, or lack there of. 

I guess this is all just a long way of saying I like where I'm at right now and I'm not in a rush to move forward or to live in the future. Let me tell you, liking where I'm at right now, in the present, that is one of the most beautiful places I've found myself in.