flâneur

choose the life you already have - by Natalie Docherty

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the opposite of settling

Katsushika Hokusai, The Great Wave This is part 1. You can read part 2 here. For better or worse, most of my life followed a well-worn pattern. I’d set my sights on something—usually a new job or city—and work feverishly to get it. Once mine, I’d pour myself into it for a year. Coast for two. Feel the slow itch of outgrowing it. And move on to the next thing that felt right in the moment. By the time I was thirty-six, I’d lived in five major cities, held three different jobs, gone to grad school, written a book, and spent a year traveling the world. From the outside, my itchy feet could…

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