The journey is the destination. #bye2017

I do keep a daily journal for my deepest thoughts or just to spill my guts somewhere, but this blog has served me very similarly and I just want to put all the thoughts out in the world of wide web. So here ya go!

So it’s the beginning of the new year, which means we gotta reflect on the past year. What was good and what was bad, you know the highlights of 2017. As an optimist, I can tell you that this year has been absolutely amazing. I settled back in Prague after living/studying abroad, made some amazing new friends, started a job (which I don't take as a job sometimes, but something I enjoy very much) etc… We are going to look at some of the highlights more closely.

I discovered myself again and again.

In the beginning of 2017 I started with 2 different internships, I learned about myself SO MUCH in this office environment. Communication, adulting, facing daily problems, doing mistakes and learning new things every day. When I ended my internships to focus on my final exam of AP studies (I studied in Denmark for 2 years), I took all these experiences and you know I thought “okay that's it I'm proper adult now”, but I now looking back at it I have to admit that the past two years has been a game/life changer. I live in Prague again (and I don't every want to leave again), but it has opened my eyes and doors to so many new things. I'm learning about myself every day and this journey will continue through my life, but gooosh I'm one happy millennial. I realised that I cannot be someone else, I have to be me. I have to be this sporty, but also hipstery girl from Prague, who lives for a swimming and good runs in the woods, but also appreciates good cappuccino and instafriendly food. I cannot live life of someone else, I have to live my life. NOW. On October 7th, I turned 22 and in my Instagram caption I mentioned, that in the past year I fell in love with life, which is the best thing happened to me. The day I'm writing this, it's the 29th of December and I couldn't agree more with my 7th of October self more. I love life so much and I honestly cannot wait for 2018. What the next year is going to be about, but one thing is for sure, it's going to be amazing!
I finally get what they mean by "the journey is the destination". I totally get that by now!

I realized that I don't need to travel.

Thanks to the past 2 years of the abroad life, I got to travel quite a bit and I always thought “I love travelling so much”. Basic, I know. I do like to travel, but my home base and my bed and my room and my desk is the place, where I feel the best. It took me some time to realise, but it is true and finally now I'm not afraid to say it. I do like to be at home. I love Prague as my home place and I don't need to travel to feel good enough or cool anymore. Realising this is the cool thing. When I look back on why I chose to study uni abroad and travelled a lot, is because I wasn't sure of myself who I am, but the vision now is getting clearer and clearer. Thank god for that!

In the beginning of the year, I always got an anxiety that I'm leaving Prague for certain amount of Prague. This anxiety has got me once so badly that I just stayed home and on purpose missed my flight to sunny Spain. I think that this anxiety has been caused by the fact that I lived abroad, so after coming back to Prague, it was always extremely tough for me to go away.

When I had out of Prague now, it's usually because I want to be in the nature, get the fresh air, do some other activities and relax from the daily responsibilities. I am so getting old (and I am only 22).

I want to do sports...a lot.

Swimming. My good old love. I've been swimming competitively for 12 years. But in 2016 I wasn't really motivated to race or to train. I just kept swimming, because that was something I always did, so I kept doing it for the sake of it. It did keep me alive in Denmark, I won't lie to you, but the drive to race wasn't really there. The year of 2017 has re-defined my outlook on racing, in the water or out. To my usual swim meets and long distance ski races, I added a couple of runs and triathlons. Who would have thought that it would give me such a drive to work on myself so much. I absolutely fell in love with running and cycling and all together I know that I want to race in the 2018 a lot. I already made a race plan for the first half of the year, so I know which weekends I do what and this is what keeps me going. I love it!

I graduated from Danish university.

This has been a big one, but I still don't really realise it. I've got my first degree under my belt! It has opened me a lot of opportunities and many ways, what I could do for living in the future. For now I stick to creating any kind of content, because I'm very millennial and I to call myself content creator.

I made some amazing friends.

I reconnected with some of my favourite people, made real friends from the internet, faced some unpleasant conversations, but all in all, I have some incredible people around me! Thank you!

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