The Other Side of Staying
Jeep Girl here… I’ve been home from Spain for a little over a month now. It’s been so interesting coming back and seeing how world travel and Barcelona specifically has changed my perspective on the US, on Nashville and on my life in general. It’s made me grateful for so much, and it’s made me realize what a comfortable little bubble we live in as Americans. We are shielded from so much of the reality of the world, and that shield allows us the luxury of dreaming the American Dream. In that respect, I’m so grateful to have been born into this bubble! Dreaming is normal here. The belief that I can be anything I want to be is commonplace. There is something missing from this ‘dream world’ though. It doesn’t feel quite as real here as it did to me there in Barcelona, and I find myself reaching for a newspaper to keep me tethered to this new piece of earth. It’s something I hope I can hold on to for the rest of my life. I’ve seen friends travel the globe,