Wednesday, January 17, 2024

The Straw That Broke The Camel's Back: 2023 at Themainstem.blogspot

Jake and I, crossing by foot from Germany, over the Rhine, and into France.
Jake's 27th Birthday.

 

2023 has been the slowest year on themainstem and consequently as I return to writing here on the blog it is on the back of a hard-learned lesson. It’s a lesson on losing yourself and the questions of what does finding yourself look like, and what to look for when you don’t know what you’re looking for anymore. 


- I was lost and there’s just no other way to say it. 

Change knocked me out and robbed me, and when I woke up I was on a street I didn’t recognise, in a part of town I had never been to before. Needless to say, the move to Denmark was packed full of difficulties. The kinds of challenges and discomforts and absences that I had experienced before and knew to expect with a change of this size, and it ended up being a great reminder of how it feels to be right in the middle of a difficult situation; pretty difficult. 


It’s only fitting that a trip to Germany to see Jake, (Howdy, partner) was the straw that broke the camel's back. - click me ⤦