New Space Opening Up

There is this phenomenon that happens when you let go of a major commitment. As we have put in our notice and begun to tell various people that we are leaving our jobs to travel the world, all sorts of new possibilities have emerged. I used to study tai chi and they have a teaching about how you cannot put anything in a closed hand. So, leaving jobs where we each spend 50+hours a week creates a wide open hand. All of a sudden, we have 50 free available hours in the week, a new blank canvas to fill. We are both looking to be very intentional about how we fill our weeks for the coming year, with where, who, what and when. Yet, as soon as the space was created (in fact, as soon as it was simply spoken, as we are both still currently at our jobs), new things we hadn't seen before showed up to fill the space--new potential jobs,  friends to visit, weddings to attend. We literally didn't see any of these things before. It was like they weren't imaginable or possible when we were both nose to the grindstone and focused on our current work. We look forward to a year of new perspectives and the new possibilities that come with them. Undoubtedly, we will re-enter the United States with a whole new perspective on how to define our work and spend those 50 or so hours each week.