How do you feel about change? Do you like routine and predictability? Does it bring you comfort or discontent? Talk about it general or tell us a specific story about a big change in your life and how you feel about it.
Change is good.
But it would be a lie to say I don’t like routine and predictability – especially since I find I thrive when I impose structure in an otherwise unstructured day, activity, task, or what have you.
I want to be stable. I’ve moved quite a bit in the past several years, mostly across the Georgia/Florida line. But I don’t want to have to think to recall my “last” address. I want to put down roots.
When I don’t feel the routine, structure, or location works, a shake up is in order, and that’s exactly the case right now. I moved here in July, hauling most of my stuff, yet again, across the state line. I like my apartment quite a bit, but months after I’d settled in, I found myself still imagining, praying about, thinking about, “a home I love and can easily afford.” It surprised me, but I knew deep down I hadn’t quite found it. Enter, change.
I needed a bit of a nudge. I was just about to let myself get comfortable in this space. I had fallen into the routine of this address. Predictable. Routinized. But the renewal letter came. Rent is going up (dramatically) and I will no longer pretend this is the best place for me.
I’ve got the moving thing down. I can pack up all of my stuff in 1-2 days max, and unpack it in the same amount of time. I’m excited about house hunting. I’m ready for a change.
This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…
- Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
- Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. No proofreading or spellchecking. This is writing in the raw.
- Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
- Add the Stream of Consciousness Sunday badge to your post.
- Link up your post below.
- Visit your fellow bloggers and show some love.
I think I’m familiar with the non-stop desire to move around. Seems you have wanderlust and might be stuck between 2 states… Ever think of moving to a brand new state? Ever travel outside the U.S?
good morning! i really don’t like moving around.
my moving back and forth was for undergrad (FL) then back home after graduation. then grad school shortly after (FL) and back home after graduation. now i’m a resident and working full time. FL feels much more like home than my hometown ever did. it’s yummy here – sunshine and warm days and beautiful scenery. i was planning to move to a different apartment when I wrote this post, but i’ve since renewed my lease. i couldn’t bear to move again, even if just across the city.
i’ve traveled to a couple of cities in France. To a couple of islands in the Caribbean. Canada. Mexico. I would consider moving overseas to a tropical, coastal city. one day.
Tomorrow I’m moving for the 4th time in 5 years and I already know I won’t be in my next state for long…I go back and forth about whether I really want to settle down somewhere or keep up with this transient lifestyle.
I may start doing this stream of consciousness writing on my blog too. I really enjoyed doing a similar exercise in a writing group I used to be a part of.
Lately I’ve taken to prompts and activities like this so I can build my writing muscles. The more I write, the easier it is for me to write, and I’ve been over thinking as of late. This was a nice change of pace.
My husband is a good, quick mover. He bounced around a lot, right up until we moved into our current house 10 years ago. Me, not so much. My parents and I lived together in the same house – with the exception of 8 semesters of dorm living – until I turned 23 and moved in with my then-boyfriend. I’m less of a mover and more of an occupier.
I still have the house I grew up in. I didn’t leave it until college, although I moved back in it once I inherited it. College, grad school, and grad school again started the Florida/Georgia thing. Florida has always been a better fit. I LOVE the warm weather, sunshine and beaches!
I have gotten really good with moving, too, just packed up and moved to the new place in a course of two days. I think that is a sign that I am needing to, and ready to, move to the bigger places I need to move to.
Good luck!
Thank you! I find I purge things all along, so there’s less agonizing when it’s time to go. Still, I can’t wait to have a new permanent address.