25 is just the beginning

I just turned 25 in September and this is by far the best year of my life. In this short 4 months I've gone bungee jumping, snorkeling, swam in the ocean and traveled to a new country, an island at that. All for the first time. All things to cross off my bucket list. And no. I didn't go on a cruise. I went to touch my dreams, to live them, and make sure I wanted to continue living them. What I ended up finding out was, I didn't want to stop living them. 

I'd like to say I'd start from the beginning but I wouldn't know where to start. I remember having a moment after I landed in LA thinking, "My whole life has literally been building up to this. The good. The bad. The moments that broke me and made me." Life just made sense. It was an almost intoxicating experience. Truly feeling like life was understandable. It almost made me feel invincible. Like, I had found my destiny but knew that until I fulfilled it, everything would be ok. I was on the path I was made for, and I just had to stay on it. (Which is honestly a thought that persuaded me to go bungee jumping, and actually follow through with it.) 

To anyone scared to do this, it's one of the most frightening  experiences to ever have just standing there, trying to jump. But the second you do it... the chords tighten, making you feel secure and you're able to enjoy the thrilling rush! 

So, I keep talking about my destiny, and all that jazz. And what I'm referring to is going and living in Haiti. From the first second that the thought of me going to Haiti crossed my mind, I had this weird factual feeling that I was going there. It was going to happen. I've never been so positive of something in my whole life. I was so positive it made me doubt myself. Only because being that sure of something weirded me out.  (That's the only sensical thing I can think of to describe it. ha) But yes, I had my dreams handed to me and placed in my lap. And I took them and ran with them. It was a crazy experience, and it was only the beginning of me preparing for what was ahead. And this is just the beginning of me telling you about it.