life update.

LIFE UPDATE. this whole year i have been dreaming of being able to travel to Nepal. for those who are close to me you all know that is really what’s been lying on my heart for some time now. i truly wasn’t sure what i wanted to do post-graduation and could not stop thinking of the possibility of travelling to Nepal. i accepted a position in October that fulfilled another love in my life: service. accepting that travelling to Nepal was completely out of the question. however, it wasn’t. for some reason i thought i could just turn that desire off…but i couldn’t. travelling there was still something i thought about everyday, rested on my heart and was an incessant inner voice in my head.

another place that has been really on my mind and in my heart since i travelled there two years ago is Denver, CO. i absolutely loved everything about the place. i was determined to at least have an opportunity to go there and applied for graduate school at the University of Colorado in December.

i still think about these places everyday while trying to be in the present with what i am doing right now. recently my family and i were informed that one of my cousins will be getting married in Nepal…in March! it was hard for me to grasp…a possible opportunity for me to go to Nepal AND attend a wedding there? i could not believe it. and didn’t for some time as a mechanism to not disappoint myself when i was not able to go due to expensive tickets, lots of vacation time, etc. in the meantime, i checked the application status to the university of Colorado and it was late due to letter of recommendation confusion so I crossed that possibility off my list as well.

being doubly disappointed I was in sort of a rough place...knowing this i tried to really take the downtime that i had to be grateful. which i know i have an immense amount to be so grateful for. the beautiful humans in my life, the opportunities that are presented to me everyday, my current service position, my house, family, yoga, everything i have is something to be very grateful for.

everyday i would read one of my favorite quotes from the book ‘The Alchemist’ if you have not read it, you definitely should! “and, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” even though at the time it seemed that the possibilities of travelling to Nepal and going to Colorado for graduate school were next to none, i still thought about both places everyday. without even trying they would come up in conversation, in my head before i went to bed, when setting my intentions for my yoga practice, i would meet people who have travelled to both places or are planning to in the future. i could just not shake it off. little did i know these synchronicity was the universe…conspiring in my favor. :)

MORAL OF THIS STORY: a week from today I will be flying out to Nepal with my parents to participate in my cousins wedding in Nepal and potentially begin yoga teacher training. right after I return from Nepal I will head to Denver where I have been accepted into the University of Colorado with scholarship and am being flown out to tour the campus, meet faculty, and learn more about the program. even typing this it seems absolutely surreal. i am in complete ecstasy, filled with abundant excitement, happiness, and overwhelming gratitude. please remember The universe ALWAYS conspires in your favor. there is a reason and lesson to be learned from everything, everyday. in some sort of way.

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