take more time for ME

The focus of my life since I left a “shared one” has been all about keeping the pengalem steady. The only way my life works now is if it is in balance with just about everything. As each month passed after June, the balance got better, and now we’re in full-swing without the pengalem swinging like the ones at the park. I’ve begun to find more time for myself (if you can’t tell by how many posts of I have made here already today :>), and I feel like I am making this resolution come to fruition. I’m mastering the beam, so to speak. It is good for the soul.

I don’t really make them anymore, but I suppose I sort of am this year because I have a few on the list, this being one of them. Wish me luck! I always “pay” myself last.

my ME time is my bellydance lessons. It’s not much, only a couple hours a couple times a week. But it’s time well spent.

I’ve never done anything alone. I mean, living in my apartment last year, my roommate would go home every weekend so I would have the place to myself. Those weekends I would go to the mall alone or take the bus and subway to dance classes in Toronto alone. I never did anything big though.

Last weekend I decided I needed so ME time so I took a bus into Tegucigalpa, which is the capital of Honduras. It’s about a 1.5 hour bus ride. I ended up spending the night there and it was amazing.

For not knowing the language well, I managed to get by. I saw a movie by myself; I ate dinner in a restaurant by myself; I stayed in a hotel by myself; All things I had NEVER done before and swore I wouldn’t.

It was liberating especially because I am not in my own country or one that speaks my language. I was exploring. And you know what? I really enjoyed my company!