Build Your Dreams

Heya! It's been a while, so let's catch up shall we.

If you've read my last blog post, I briefly mentioned that I attended university in Prague and am now at a university in Scotland. Well.... I am switching universities yet again.

It's kind of a long story so I'm not going to go into all of the details. Basically, at the beginning of the year I started looking inwards and started picking my brain trying to figure out what it was that I actually wanted to be doing in life and whether Scotland was a right fit for me at that point. I thought about careers, hobbies, relationships, the present, the foreseeable future, and most dauntingly, many years into the future. There are so many paths that I want to take in life and I tend to change my mind a lot. I think that that's a major part of what makes me, me. I like to see this aspect of my personality as a positive, but it makes major life decisions difficult because I never know which path/passion to pursue at that specific point. So, while making the difficult decision to leave Scotland and all of my friends I really focused on the phrase 'build your dreams'. I thought about all of the passion projects I could pursue with more freedom of online school, all of the places I could travel to, and hobbies I could invest more time into. This made it a bit easier to think about leaving, but I still wasn't sure that leaving was the best thing for me to do. Now I am a firm believer in signs from the universe/God/higher power/whatever you believe in. There was one specific day that I journaled about building my dreams and spent the morning making pro/con lists. Later that same day I went on a walk with a friend and confided in her that I had been thinking about leaving but really wasn't sure what to do. About five minutes after going on my 'build your dreams' spiel we turned a corner and there was a parked car that quite literally said 'Build Your Dreams' (you can see the pic I took below). I don't know about you but that seemed like a pretty big sign that I should invest in all of the big dreams that I have for myself and my future.

I have been back home for a week now and I have a few goals for myself during this chapter in my life. I hope to invest more time and energy into spending time with friends and loved ones. I want to focus a lot on photography and learn more about videography. I want to travel more when possible. I want to invest in my mental health. And my main goal is to build my dreams from the ground up. Because if I don't, can I really say I lived my life to the fullest?

If you've gained anything from this little post I really hope it is to invest in yourself. You are the creator of your own life. Create something beautiful. Create something you can be proud of. I'm cheering each of you on through every decision you make and every turn your life may take.

That's my little ramble over.

With love,

Madie ♡

p.s. to my friends that I've left, I love you all so much. thank you for being the best friends and support system I could ask for. I'll see you so soon