Looking Ahead to Living Green

Well friends, this portion of the Quarter Life Crisis Project is slowly coming to a close as I’ll be beginning the next phase on March 6. Thank god, because let’s be honest: it’s pretty well fizzled like a flat can of cola. Perhaps I should have just gone with making this 3-monther the “Living like an Adult” project, because I clearly did NOT factor in the major life adjustment that starting a new full-time job would bring with it. I’ve been totally distracted and grappling with many different challenges and transitions, and quite honestly feeling more tumultuous than zen throughout the whole ungraceful process. So despite still giving it my best shot under the circumstances, I often resorted to robotically doing a one-week blog writing just to keep the thing alive.

Not that I didn’t learn things…oh, I most definitely did. It’s been a very learning-heavy past 3 months, in fact. But the learning that you get from life can’t really be fit into a box and turned into a structured project quite as easily as some other areas of learning can. I can’t say it’s impossible, because images of Julia Roberts in “Eat Pray Love” are popping into my head as I type this… but I think spiritual learning really is best approached as a natural unfolding of things. You learn things in due time. It can’t be forced or planned or executed in the same way that learning about food can. You can cultivate it, sure…but the harder you try and the more externally motivated you are (for example, by a blog), the more your growth is actually impeded. Living spiritually really seems to be about letting go and going with the flow, wherever that takes you. The more expectations you have, the more you’ll suffer.

 

That said, I’m uber excited to shift focus with the next phase, which starts on March 6 – the “Green Living” phase. While I’m a huge supporter of Mother Earth, I proclaim nearly full ignorance when it comes to environmentally friendly lifestyles… so I’m pretty excited at the prospect of learning a thing or two about how to reduce my carbon footprint and become one with nature, so to speak. However, I’m still trying to remain aware of the fact that I AM working two jobs now, and things will not be as easy since time is a very limited resource. Thus, I will try to be better with planning this time, and perhaps consider making the blog posts a bit shorter too.

In the meantime, I hope you’re all doing well out there! Hard to believe it’s been 6 months since I sat here and started pouring over healthy internet recipes for the first time. The journey continues…

xo Janine