We make our own reality

After being home a few hours I could feel the anxiety setting in. Back to reality. This was real life, all our trips were over. I needed to be a grown up, a responsible mother and we had nothing to look forward to. Quickly I snapped out of this ridiculous thought pattern. 


What Alessia has always taught me and has helped me do was practice mindfulness. To enjoy the moment, not to over think, to stay grounded. But here I was panicking, over thinking and forgetting to just be. So instead I decided to make my own reality and what it was didn't need to scare me or take the fun and excitement out of life. What is real life anyway.

So I caught up on some much needed relaxing time. We sauntered down the road. We spend two hours walking from our home 500 meters down the street, exploring every nook and cranny. We were getting excited about the little things, going to the supermarket, going to buy fruit. Taking the train into Dublin and exploring. No matter what the task was we were enjoying it.

Spending two months on high alert definitely took its toll, I don't even realize. Constantly thinking of protecting Alessia against bites, water, being touched and just general dangers. Like when your driver asks can he share your bedroom and keeps telling you how awful it is for him to sleep in the car and then you hear a knock on your not so secure hotel door. Or when he keeps asking are you happy with him and will you still  talk when you get home. It's hard to drop your guard. So coming home was an adjustment, and although it was still only the two of us there was plenty of people around But a lot less things to worry about. I don't think I even realized all the things I had to think of, until I no longer had to think of them.

Alessia helped bring me back to our reality and to ground me and to get back into mindfulness. While we walked up and down the same road and ate olives on the pavement and ate oranges on super values floor  I could feel my shoulders relax and my mind become more tranquil. But none of this would deter  us from going again. Our trip felt like a distant memory, but our drive to explore and travel more was only becoming stronger. It was the Christmas season and we had lots to look forward to. And Being a mother at Christmas felt extra special


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