Yesterday morning I was walking north bound on Market Street in downtown San Francisco. I had stayed the night over at the Palomar Hotel on 4th and Market and I was head towards work at 101 California St. As I was walking I came across a homeless couple walking in the opposite direction, “were where they going” I thought to myself. Life was dictating my direction on this sunny San Francisco morning and it seemed that life was also dictating this couple to wander aimlessly. This is where I started to think that most people allow life to dictate their direction (romantics call it destine), yet we have the power to change that and it seems that people forget how powerful humans really are. Matt and I are looked at and judged by others for our nomadic lifestyle and people cannot comprehend why we decide from one day to the next to just quite our jobs and move to another city without a job, without a house, and without knowing anyone. Yet I think that we are the only ones that are making a conscious choose to dictate our direction to create our own destinies. On a daily bases life does tell us which direction to walk in, in fact yesterday morning I would have preferred to walk south towards the beach instead of north towards work, but I have decided to be a productive member of society so I have a job and responsibilities.
We both love our families and our friends that we have back in our hometowns, but we also love to meet new people, explore different cultures, be stimulated by new things. The world is so large and it has so much to offer that it’s a crime to stay in one place your entire life. Life is there for you to do with it as you please, be whom you want, when you want, and where you want it. To see people at least in the U.S. strapped to their dead end jobs, miserable quality of life, and a sense of hopelessness is beyond Matt and I. Life is not the boss you, you are the boss of your life.
One thing is damn right clear life may dictate which direction I walk in today, but I decide in what city I walk in tomorrow.
What are you letting life decide for you?
We know what we are doing today, but we don’t know what we will be doing tomorrow. One thing that I do know is that we only have one life to live. yes you are absolutely correct the world has so much for us to see and to give. God makes us and gives us life for some unknown reason, and good is the one that joins our life’s to one another. Nothing is a coincident or we ran into each other.
Matt and you where send from god to be together, you both are so much alike in many ways. Since you were a little girl, your biggest dream was to live somewhere else except hometown. You will always have my blessing and my support especially my love, and you know that I will always be there visiting you. Remember the show Carmen San Diego well now it is “Where is Celia San Diego now”.
I love you too and know that anywhere I am you are there too, always in my thoughts and in my heart.
Love you big sis,
Celia