thoughts, insights and rambles from a girl on a mission to change the world
One moment we seem to be wandering through life, lost and confused. And then, all of a sudden, life gets really, really good. You find yourself riding the metro home in the dark on a week night, buzzed off a pitcher of margaritas, smiling ear to ear about your day. You stumble upon a new […]
There’s something about that moment when you find yourself way outside of your comfort zone. To the point where your comfort zone is no longer even in sight. When you forget what that comfort zone even is. We are so often convinced by this scary world that our comfort zone is where we are meant […]
So much time in life is spent waiting. Waiting for the magical day we dream up in our imaginations. Waiting for our dreams to come true. Waiting for our achievements to materialize, for our hard work to pay off. We wait and we wait, and we get frustrated when that day does not come exactly when […]
I woke up on Friday morning with the heaviest heart I’ve felt in a long, long time. I wanted to throw my phone out the window. It was the messenger delivering the bad news and I didn’t know what to feel or how to act I just knew I was angry and sad and terrifyingly confused and […]
Imagine this: What if we all stopped complaining and started doing? What if we realized our ability to have an impact, to fix the problems of the world, instead of idly sitting by as we watch the world as we know it crumble to pieces? Each day I confront a slew of opinionated, oftentimes angry […]
My heart is so heavy. It hit me today. Driving to the grocery store early this morning, the tears began to flow. Two hours later, they haven’t really stopped. How, how can a world filled with so much love and beauty be countered by so much anger and hatred? We cannot continue to live like […]
I often run through life feeling as though I have a ton of bricks stacked upon my shoulders. Bricks of responsibility, of obligation, of high-expectations weighing down on me, clouding my vision, preventing me from feeling completely free to the opportunities of the world. Each day it’s a battle: how much weight can I take […]
How can I feel as though I’ve been gone a lifetime, but also as if my adventure is just begining? 17 days. 3 countries. Many people. Countless memories. This journey might be coming to a close, as much as I hate to let it go, but the chapter of my life it’s opened up has […]
The sheer amount of life in this world terrifies me. As I delve deeper into my studies of international development, the amount of life I continue to encounter grows and grows and begins to become this overhwleming pressure of obligation weighing down on me. Not only life as in people, but all the things that […]
Maybe we are never truly whole. Maybe everywhere we go, in everything we do, we find another little piece of ourselves. Maybe there is no final person we are meant to be, rather we are a canvas upon which all these little pieces continue to collect and our story is the glue that ties them […]
Evan Petschke 