free rommy New York → Kansas City → San Francisco → Stockholm → Berlin

And we begin again…

So, I'm starting my like 19th blog. However this one will stick, because it's being inspired by a major change in my life that warrants a blog. I'm moving to Sweden, starting a new job, and I may never come back to the States. Oh stop, I'm not being dramatic. If I never saw the same place twice, I would consider my life complete in some ways. So when I say I may never come back, you should be happy for me.

My blog is a going to be a chronicle of my adventures. Not just my travel adventures, but my spiritual ones, my physical ones, and my emotional ones...

I'm seeking personal enlightenment. No, I don't mean religious. There may be times I may have "religious" experiences, but they may not be of the traditional sort, since I'm not a traditionally religious man.

No, to me, personal enlightenment is my personal attempt to expose the very core of my spirit. I'm not looking for anything per se, but rather I am looking to unearth what exists around me, and to make that which exists a part of me; part of my mind, my spirit - my whole being. Although this may sound profound, it really isn't.

My goal in life is to keep my spirit nourished. While my spirit remains nourished, it can live, thrive, inspire, be inspired. It can laugh, it can cry. It can be content, but not stagnant. I'm not looking to be happy. I'm looking to be content, which to me is a far deeper and spirtually raw emotion than just happiness.

I want to always be learning. I want to learn through books, through people, through history, through war, through poverty, through art, through music, through film. This to me is what keeps the spirit nourished. It's the ability to take in my surroundings, to personalize them, and to appreciate them, and to make them a part of who I am. I never want to stop growing. I never want to stagnate. When I know that this starts to happen, the spirit in me starts to feel undernourished, and it's then when I know that it's time to do something new.

Moving to Sweden is that new thing right now. It's the thing that is going to reinvigorate my spirit. It's going take me out of my comfort zone and force me to embark on my newest adventure to personal enlightenment. I always got frustrated that I was never tied to one place, that I would never settle down, but the fact is, I never want to. We all have our means of achieving personal enlightenment and for me this is the next step.

To stop learning is to stop living and I never want to stop.