HAPPY SUNDAY 🙂

I am currently cooped up in a hotel room in Oregon as I wait for my car to be fixed. Yes, my precious car had its radiator fan brake and I am stuck in a small town in Oregon for the weekend. My initial plan was to go to Portland, but my adventurous mind just wanted to see more.

I feel like this has been the only thing on my mind so I am just gonna write about it.

I never think things like this are gonna happen until they do. I mean most of us don’t want to think about the negatives of a cool road trip, but I also am oblivious sometimes to what could go wrong. But there I was, Friday night, sitting in a parking lot as my car started malfunctioning.

It is in these moments where I reflect on taking too much of a big step coming to a big city by myself. Overthinking the fact that I can’t handle these situations. But no one really thinks they can handle it until they are in it, you know? Like we can always assume or guess how we would act in certain situations, but that flight or fight mode could just turn everything in such a different direction.

This weekend has been eye opening for me. I learned a lot about being alone, under pressure in an unexpected and stressful situation. That is something I didn’t think I would learn for a while at least. And solving this alone was just on some whole other level. I mean my parents have been great, but everything is more tough when they are on the other side of the continent.

I think I’ve learned to slow it down just a little bit. There is so much life to live, that I shouldn’t be running in circles trying to get everything done. I think I need to give myself a breather and just be a university kid and enjoy life around me for a little while. I know I am going to experience amazing things and I am dreaming of getting to enjoy them with the most amazing humans.

So slowing down might just be what I need. Just continue to take it day by day. To value what has been given to me and appreciate life. Not that I don’t do that already, but especially after this weekend, I just need to be mindful that things get in our way and challenges surface, but they come to help us grow.

Travelling alone requires a bit of prep. Me on the other hand did not do that. I was spontaneous and wanted a new adventure. And that is okay, there shouldn’t be a problem with spontaneity. BUT, sometimes I should scale it back just a little bit just in case something like this happens again.

I rank this story of a weekend as one for the books. It’s not too often I can say that my first time EVER in Oregon, on a solo trip is where I experienced my first car issue of breaking down. And being stranded in Keizer, Oregon for the weekend. On the bright side, I have tried dutch bros coffee for the first time. And yeah.

ANYWAY

 

STAY KIND:)

with love

grace <3