While it’s tempting to play it safe, the more we’re willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took. And I hope that explains a little this journey on which I’m about to embark.

Fraiser, series finale

There’s Something About Turning 30

A month shy of my 30th birthday, I bought a one-way ticket to Barcelona with no idea of when I was coming back. I booked the flight in January to leave in June. I had accepted an au pair position with a family in Italy, so I figured this would be a perfect time to visit Barcelona, a city I had always wanted to explore. I had never traveled alone before, but I told myself this was the year I stopped letting fear prevent me from doing things I wanted to do. And this wasn’t scary because it wasn’t real yet. It was too far away.

But on that day in June, it got real. Real fast.

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