Living out your passion is the foundation of reaching happiness. Living someones else or not taking the steps to get there creates a miserable life. After leaving Ottawa I have realized that I am becoming closer to my enlightenment as the Buddhist would say. My passion in life is to travel and meet others and share knowledge and experiences. With technology these days it is making it very possible and do not understand why we live in a world with some many barriers. Ottawa is a city that I can call home and going back there I realized I have so many connections with people there. I have a strong relationship with my family there and have made new friends through my family. Now I head to Peru to stay with a close friends family and there I plan to create and strength relationships there. My goal for the rest of my life is to have connections all over the world and be able to be accepted everywhere in the world. Also to have many of my connections come to the British Columbia to share knowledge and experiences to region I live in.
I was really glad to be back in Ottawa and to see my family I have not seen in a long time. Zoey and I reconnected and had loads of fun playing in the snow and going to the sugar shack. I cannot believe how much she has grownup since last time I saw her. Her sentence structure has improved and really knows how to tell me what to do. Gemma her little sister has grown up very fast as well and is learning a lot from her sister. Zoey and Gemma are almost inseparable and her speech is way ahead of a one and a half year old that has no older sibling. Zoey has taught Gemma sign language and sentence structure and the word “More” and “My (fill in the blank)”. Those two are a riot and I am going to really miss them.
Kevin; Zoey and Gemma's father, got some good quality time with me and got me hooked on his new coffee maker. Kevin and I got to share time playing darts at the pub and sitting down in his unfinished basement on small chairs watching hockey and drinking beers. I also got to spend time with Carolynn and the girls, taking them to the wooded park near there house and having birds land on our hands. We took Zoey to preschool where Zoey, Gemma and I got to play in the classroom for a bit and Zoey got to be the first child to play on the new Pirate ship play set. Then on another occasion Carolynn took the girls and I to Zoey's gymnastics class and I got to go in with Zoey and participate with her. Spending all that time with those two girls, telling you what to do and having them jump on you was exhausting but I persevered. I am going to miss those two and hope to see them in a years time. They are old enough to travel now and hopefully will come out West to see me and the Co-op.
On a mild thursday night; I was expecting colder weather in the Ottawa, I got to watch my cousin go on the campus radio station and play two of the songs in his band Train Jumpers. He was promoting his bands last show that was occurring on the following saturday. Chris and I share a lot of the same ideas and got on many topics when I was there visiting. One particular topic that we love to talk about is lucid dreaming. We had some discussing on it at his last show and some of his experiences with lucid dreaming. His last show on that saturday was a blast, it was really good stomping music. Unfortunately the band had to come to an end but is was a really good folking time. Now he will be more focused on his new project Glorious Moon Rockets and hopefully will have a better experience with it.
But before I end this blog I would like to take the time to mention my aunt who I stayed with before coming out to the great west. She is a very kind hearted person who cares very much so for her family and friends that are in her life. She is like me and cannot live by herself and has open her home to students from Ottawa U. She is very encouraging and always prompts living out your passion. She has raised wonderful children who have become a great father, a great musician, and daughter who is looking to change the world.
Her daughter I got to see briefly see each other before leaving for Windsor from Toronto. She is one of the ones that has inspired me to travel and see different cultures. She is currently in grad school for international development and has done research in India and also has lived there in the past. She has also opened my eyes to a new way of thinking when it comes to gender topics and prejudice topics.
I anticipate Windsor is going to be exciting and have more stories for this trip.
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